160 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-19, silence through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-55, snare through bars 56-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-65, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-8 and 10, and 29 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 43, 48, 90, 131, 146 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
120 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.
35 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 5 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 11, 43, 48, 90, 131, 146 and 3 more.