138 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 2-24, snare through bars 25-34, ride through bars 35-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-39, silence through bars 40-44 and toms through bars 45-47, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 48-63 and 91-106 -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
112 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.
28 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.