135 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 117 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-113, silence through bars 114-116 and ride through bars 117-135.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 48 more places -- 50.8% 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---|
SD |x---x-------|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 92, 100 and 128.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
117 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 92, 100 and 128.