132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, snare through bars 39-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68 and snare through bars 69-74, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32 and 49-64 -- 29.9% 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 |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
33 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.