400 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 11:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-16, silence through bars 17-47, kick and crashes through bars 48-50, silence through bars 51-65 and toms through bars 66-75, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 95, 100-101 and 103, and 23 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
103
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|20 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 81, 99, 115, 123, 127, 128 and 61 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
135 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
400 bars, about 11:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 19 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.
20 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 81, 99, 115, 123, 127, 128 and 61 more.