140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-79, hi-hat through bars 80-82, ride through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-90 and ride through bars 91-93, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-51, 60-74 and 116-131 -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x--xx---x---x---x--x|
SD |--------r---------------r-------|6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 93 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 7:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 75, 79, 83, 87, 91, 93 and 4 more.