171 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-120, toms through bars 121-122, hi-hat through bars 123-136, toms through bars 137-138 and hi-hat through bars 139-171.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-25, 27 and 29, and 27 more places -- 55.5% 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---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
HF |------x---------|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 48, 72, 80, 87, 88 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
135 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.
42 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 48, 72, 80, 87, 88 and 7 more.