73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-52, silence through bars 53-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-73.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 35-42 and 44 -- 41.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
97 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
73 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.