91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-38, toms through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and silence through bars 65-70, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 39.5% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 30, 38, 39 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
86 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.
39 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.
91 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 30, 38, 39 and 5 more.