461 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 13:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-164, silence through bars 165-195, hi-hat through bars 196-327, toms through bars 328-329, ride through bars 330-359 and silence through bars 360-375, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 164 more places -- 40.3% 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
HH |x---x-o-x-x-o---|
SD |--------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
140 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.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
461 bars, about 13:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.