84 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-34, silence through bars 35-41, snare through bars 42-68, silence through bars 69-77 and snare through bars 78-84.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 27 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-----x-x---x-------x---x---xxx-|
HF |x---------------x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
34 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.
84 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.