109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-39 and ride through bars 40-41, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 42-48 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 35.2% 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---r---r---|10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
77 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 how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41 and 17 more.