114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-25 and silence through bars 26-49, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-16 and 50-65, and 2 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
103 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.
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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 98.