151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43, silence through bars 44-54, hi-hat through bars 55-66, silence through bars 67-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-123, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-37, 39 and 41, and 9 more places -- 75.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
25
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
105 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
151 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.