76 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, silence through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 31 and 33, and 8 more places -- 49.2% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
136 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.
26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
76 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 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.