172 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-38, snare through bars 39-62, hi-hat through bars 63-74 and snare through bars 75-115, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-26 and 28-38, and 3 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x-----x---------|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 102, 103, 114, 115 and 133.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
125 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
172 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 102, 103, 114, 115 and 133.