171 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 178 BPM, 4:39 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, silence through bars 27-29, ride through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-54, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-137 and 139-140 -- 6.8% 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+a
HH |o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---------xx----|10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 36, 45, 70, 71, 95 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
178 BPM, in 5/4, 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.
44 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 25, 36, 45, 70, 71, 95 and 15 more.