156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-51, silence through bars 52-91, snare through bars 92-94, silence through bars 95-96 and snare through bars 97-109, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 16 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 48, 110, 111, 112, 118 and 7 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.
80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 7:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 28, 48, 110, 111, 112, 118 and 7 more.