120 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, silence through bars 15-28, hi-hat through bars 29-42, toms through bars 43-48 and silence through bars 49-61, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 30-36, and 8 more places -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-x-------------|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 63, 81, 101, 113 and 119.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 13, 63, 81, 101, 113 and 119.