187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:47 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16 and ride through bars 17-187.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 57 more places -- 35.1% 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+a
RD |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 112, 120, 138 and 152.
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.
100 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
37 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 112, 120, 138 and 152.