112 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-43, silence through bars 44-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63 and ride through bars 64-80, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42, 64-79 and 92-111 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
117 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.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
112 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.