88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-65 and kick and crashes through bars 66-74, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 16 and 30-36, and 4 more places -- 39.2% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
90 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.
41 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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.