132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-69, hi-hat through bars 70-97, snare through bars 98-104, hi-hat through bars 105-111 and snare through bars 112-132.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 21-27 and 35-41, and 3 more places -- 54.7% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----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 19 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.
120 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.