103 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-103.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 9, and 20 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x-o-x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 46 and 66.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
115 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 22, 46 and 66.