90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:55 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.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-35 and ride through bars 36-59, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 19-24 and 36-39, and 4 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 26, 34, 35 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
92 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
90 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 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.
9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 26, 34, 35 and 7 more.