185 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
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 1-8, snare through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-45, silence through bars 46-51 and snare through bars 52-59, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 60-75 and 108-112, and 1 more place -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 51, 96, 97, 105, 113, 168 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
120 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 51, 96, 97, 105, 113, 168 and 1 more.