167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 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, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-47 and snare through bars 48-54, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 33-39 and 41-47, and 9 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 32, 40 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
101 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.
44 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.
12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 32, 40 and 23 more.