83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
40 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 3-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-83.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 8-16 and 20, and 18 more places -- 50.6% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---------|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 25, 38, 75 and 83.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
100 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.
40 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 25, 38, 75 and 83.