80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 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, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, toms through bars 24-33 and silence through bars 34-37, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 9, 13 and 37.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
85 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.
38 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.
80 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 5, 9, 13 and 37.