87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-32, ride through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-63 and ride through bars 64-87.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7-9, and 8 more places -- 46% 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-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 21, 63, 79 and 87.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
78 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.
35 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.
87 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 21, 63, 79 and 87.