186 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-19, ride through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-124 and ride through bars 125-139, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-29, 32 and 34-44, and 4 more places -- 28.7% 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---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 132.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
39 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 132.