110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-87, ride through bars 88-105 and silence through bars 106-110.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-22 and 25, and 13 more places -- 37.6% 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-------|
BD |g-------------g-|7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 27, 31, 32, 51, 52 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
78 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.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
110 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 26, 27, 31, 32, 51, 52 and 5 more.