135 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-47, snare through bars 48-51, hi-hat through bars 52-53, toms through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-83, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-47, 52-53 and 76-83, and 2 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
38 39
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-------x---x-|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 31, 49, 51, 61, 69 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
135 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.
44 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 23, 31, 49, 51, 61, 69 and 7 more.