113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom 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 1-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38, toms through bars 39-46, snare through bars 47-50, toms through bars 51-54 and snare through bars 55-66, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-50, 55-57 and 59-66, and 6 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 74, 85, 105 and 109.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
105 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 58, 74, 85, 105 and 109.