155 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-118, toms through bars 119-120 and ride through bars 121-124, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-38, 41-47 and 49-50, and 6 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 39, 40 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
136 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.
36 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.
155 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 39, 40 and 8 more.