178 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-14, silence through bars 15-21, snare through bars 22-29 and kick and crashes through bars 30-31, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 46 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
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BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 13, 47, 55, 63, 65 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 13, 47, 55, 63, 65 and 23 more.