95 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on snare, mid tom and kick.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-21, silence through bars 22-23 and toms through bars 24-95.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-38, 48-62 and 80-94 -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
T2 |X--x--x--X--x--X--x--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 16 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.
116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
33 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
snare, mid tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.