140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 6:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-37, ride through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-73, ride through bars 74-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-89, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 31 more places -- 36.1% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 37, 41, 49 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
85 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.
42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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.
15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 37, 41, 49 and 16 more.