65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
40 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, snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-22, hi-hat through bars 23-25 and snare through bars 26-43, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10, and 11 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.
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.
80 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.
40 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
65 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.