154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-108, snare through bars 109-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-148, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22-28, and 14 more places -- 82.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
37 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 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.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 151, 152 and 153.