163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, toms through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-25, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-43, 53-55 and 59-63, and 3 more places -- 58.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 6 more.