102 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, snare through bars 49-62 and toms through bars 63-72, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 22-24 and 43-44, and 9 more places -- 33.3% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x----xx-x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
124 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.
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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
102 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 42.