72 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 62 BPM, 3:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
25 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 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 20 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-x-x-x-----|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
62 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
25 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.