111 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-60, hi-hat through bars 61-64, snare through bars 65-74, hi-hat through bars 75-76 and ride through bars 77-79, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-27 and 37-43, and 5 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----x-----x-x---|
BD |x-----x---------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
140 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.
29 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.