108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare 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 1-4, snare through bars 5-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36, snare through bars 37-51, hi-hat through bars 52-60 and silence through bars 61-74, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27, 37-51 and 101-108 -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x---xx-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
90 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.