150 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, snare through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-60, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 26-27 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 36% 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 |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 32.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
123 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.
42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 32.