121 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-85, snare through bars 86-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-121.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-8, and 6 more places -- 59.5% 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-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
144 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.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.