140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-13, snare through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-43, snare through bars 44-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-106, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 27-33 and 35-41, and 5 more places -- 42% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 114, 122, 130, 139 and 140.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
97 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.
38 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 114, 122, 130, 139 and 140.