98 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 3:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, silence through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-41, silence through bars 42-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-71, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-18 and 23 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
7 8
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |----x---x---|x---x---x---|
SD |------------|r-----------|
BD |x-----------|------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
140 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
31 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.