129 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56, snare through bars 57-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-81 and snare through bars 82-129.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-33 and 35-54, and 2 more places -- 56.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------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.
137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
39 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 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.