117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, toms through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-64, toms through bars 65-72 and snare through bars 73-81, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-x---x-----x-x---|4 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
89 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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.
4 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 26 more.