160 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 174 BPM, 5:31 of playing on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-88, snare through bars 89-107 and silence through bars 108-160.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 89-95, 97-103 and 105-106 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x-----x-x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 88 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 82 more.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
174 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
37 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 4 sittings, about 35 minutes each.
crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 88 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 82 more.