129 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
35 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 9-24, toms through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-44 and ride through bars 45-57, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-56, 86-96 and 105-128 -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------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 26 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.
148 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.
35 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.