100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-6, silence through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-19, silence through bars 20-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-83, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 51-66 and 91-98 -- 35.9% 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-xx-xxxx-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--------|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 48, 81, 82, 90 and 100.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
97 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 10, 48, 81, 82, 90 and 100.