99 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-50, toms through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-54, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 37-50 and 79 -- 48.6% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 26, 51, 52, 61, 62 and 3 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.
113 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 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.
3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 26, 51, 52, 61, 62 and 3 more.