114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 2-33, toms through bars 34-42, snare through bars 43-65 and toms through bars 66-114.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-13, 15-33 and 35-41, and 4 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
107 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.
32 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.