123 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-66, silence through bars 67-70, hi-hat through bars 71-74, snare through bars 75-78 and silence through bars 79-82, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-66, 75-78 and 85-123 -- 92% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
118 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.