129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-84, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-27, and 6 more places -- 53.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 84, 116 and 128.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
100 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.
43 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.
129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 4, 28, 84, 116 and 128.