163 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68 and snare through bars 69-98, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 39-52 and 69-98, and 3 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 68, 116, 147 and 148.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
115 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.
43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 68, 116, 147 and 148.