98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-74, silence through bars 75-78, kick and crashes through bars 79-80 and toms through bars 81-82, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-26 and 36-49 -- 38.7% 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-x-------|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 50, 66, 81, 82 and 98.
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.
106 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.
42 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 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.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 50, 66, 81, 82 and 98.