144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 82 BPM, 5:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-42, ride through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-76, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-9 and 13, and 27 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 27, 28, 42, 75, 76 and 8 more.
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.
82 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.
3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 10, 27, 28, 42, 75, 76 and 8 more.