121 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
27 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, snare through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-48, silence through bars 49-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-55, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 53-56 and 81-88, and 1 more place -- 35% 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---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
126 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.
27 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.