133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
ride through bars 2-13, toms through bars 14-33, ride through bars 34-39, toms through bars 40-51, hi-hat through bars 52-57 and ride through bars 58-77, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 34-39 and 58-77, and 2 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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RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 103, 117 and 131.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
130 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.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 57, 103, 117 and 131.