135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 7:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
ride through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39 and toms through bars 40-43, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 9 more places -- 11.1% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|29 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 55 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
77 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.
50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 7:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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.
29 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 55 more.