239 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-25 and silence through bars 26-59, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 102-108, 158-159 and 170-176, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
102 103
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--x-----x-------|
BD |x---------------|----x-----------|13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 14, 18, 24, 69, 85, 99 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
140 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.
39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
239 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 14, 18, 24, 69, 85, 99 and 20 more.