100 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-26, hi-hat through bars 27-70, kick and crashes through bars 71-78, hi-hat through bars 79-83 and snare through bars 84-86, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-46 and 56-61, and 3 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |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 16 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.
110 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.
30 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.
100 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.