105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
30 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, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-24, silence through bars 25-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-39 and snare through bars 40-43, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 40-42, and 3 more places -- 36.6% 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---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
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.
92 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.
30 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.
105 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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.