104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
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 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-37, silence through bars 38-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-58, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 33-37 and 42-49, and 2 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 58, 62, 83, 91, 92 and 1 more.
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.
92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 50, 58, 62, 83, 91, 92 and 1 more.