97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10 and hi-hat through bars 11-97.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 21-25 and 31-35, and 5 more places -- 35.8% 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---|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 76, 80 and 96.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
120 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.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 76, 80 and 96.