158 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3 and toms through bars 4-158.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-30, 38-39 and 46-47, and 19 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |r-----r--r--r-----r-----|
FT |x-----x--x--x-----x-----|
BD |x-----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 22 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.
130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
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.