128 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-40, toms through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-80, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 13 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----x-----|4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 23, 24, 43 and 6 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.
148 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.
41 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 12, 20, 23, 24, 43 and 6 more.