200 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 10 more places -- 23.1% 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+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
42 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
200 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 29 more.