107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, toms through bars 45-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-80, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 38.5% 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
T2 |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
80 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
107 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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 1 time: bar 8.