83 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-23, hi-hat through bars 24-33, silence through bars 34-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 42.4% 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---------|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 8, 42 and 44.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
120 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
83 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 8, 42 and 44.