144 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:54 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.
silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, snare through bars 73-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-104, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-39, 41-47 and 55, and 13 more places -- 52.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
33 34
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----------|9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 72, 80, 88 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
148 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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.
9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 72, 80, 88 and 5 more.