103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 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, hi-hat through bars 8-15, toms through bars 16-27, hi-hat through bars 28-47, toms through bars 48-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-15, 28-34 and 44-46, and 2 more places -- 29.2% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 43, 63, 83, 91, 99 and 1 more.
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.
90 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.
41 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 43, 63, 83, 91, 99 and 1 more.