140 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bar 1 and snare through bars 2-140.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 35-36 and 39-49, and 5 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
125 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.
35 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.