108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-52 and snare through bars 53-60, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-36 and 61-108 -- 59.3% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |----------xx----|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
95 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.
34 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 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.