149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-48, hi-hat through bars 49-80, ride through bars 81-95, hi-hat through bars 96-129, silence through bars 130-147 and ride through bars 148-149.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 12 more places -- 59.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 72 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
37 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 6:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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.
7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 72 and 10 more.