140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
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 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-140.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-23 and 25-39, and 17 more places -- 75.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------|9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 76, 80, 84, 88, 108, 116 and 3 more.
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.
102 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 76, 80, 84, 88, 108, 116 and 3 more.