149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 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 5-20, ride through bars 21-36, silence through bars 37-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61 and ride through bars 62-149.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 29-34 and 62-67, and 11 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 20, 53 and 61.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
105 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.
37 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 12, 20, 53 and 61.