126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-35, toms through bars 36-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53 and ride through bars 54-82, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-23 and 25, and 12 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 36, 37, 53 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
130 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.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
126 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 36, 37, 53 and 6 more.