179 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 88 BPM, 6:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 3-34, ride through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-65, silence through bars 66-81, hi-hat through bars 82-114 and ride through bars 115-158, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 8-16 and 19-32, and 4 more places -- 47.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------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 17 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.
88 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.
33 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.