87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, silence through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-41, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 11 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 79, 83 and 87.
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.
95 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.
87 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 79, 83 and 87.