121 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48, snare through bars 49-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-96, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 49, and 11 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-x---x-|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|------x-----x---|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 6, 7 and 8.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
150 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.
42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 6, 7 and 8.