159 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 8:16 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-28, ride through bars 29-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-47 and ride through bars 48-76, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-25, 29-44 and 48-76, and 1 more place -- 47.4% 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-|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x---------x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 21 times: bars 96, 97, 98, 106, 107, 108 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
77 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 8:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, 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 21 times: bars 96, 97, 98, 106, 107, 108 and 15 more.