88 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 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 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, snare through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30 and snare through bars 31-36, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-20 and 27-36, and 4 more places -- 52.5% 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+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---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.
123 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.
38 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.