122 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-10, silence through bars 11-14, snare through bars 15-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-48, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-10, 15-22 and 25-48, and 4 more places -- 96% 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
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
142 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.
31 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.