90 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, snare through bars 30-36, hi-hat through bars 37-53, snare through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-73, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 12 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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SD |--------x---------------x-------|7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
120 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
90 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 33, 37, 45 and 9 more.