142 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-114, toms through bars 115-122, silence through bars 123-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-142.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 41-43 and 45-47, and 15 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 102, 110 and 1 more.
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.
135 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.
40 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 36, 64, 72, 102, 110 and 1 more.