128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, silence through bars 15-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-128.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 27-30 and 42, and 11 more places -- 44.3% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 61, 89, 93, 96, 117 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
98 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 61, 89, 93, 96, 117 and 1 more.