159 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 4:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 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, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-12, silence through bars 13-18, hi-hat through bars 19-23 and silence through bars 24-26, and 22 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-48, 61 and 63, and 6 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
41 42
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|------x-----|
BD |x-----------|x----x------|9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 54, 55, 56 and 24 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.
115 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
42 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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.
9 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 54, 55, 56 and 24 more.