77 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 4:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-32, ride through bars 33-39 and silence through bars 40-77.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-21 and 33-38 -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-----------x---x-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x---x-----x-x-----|x-------x-x---x---x-----x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 29 and 32.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
135 BPM, in 8/4, 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 29 and 32.