75 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-13, toms through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-26, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34, 43-50 and 71-75 -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43 44
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|x---x-x-x-x-x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------------------|x---------------x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 31, 32, 42 and 67.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
125 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.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
75 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 26, 31, 32, 42 and 67.