145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-81, silence through bars 82-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-112, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-64 and 129-144 -- 36.9% 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---------------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 16.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
35 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 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.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 8 and 16.