177 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor 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.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-108, kick and crashes through bars 109-112 and toms through bars 113-177.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 18, and 23 more places -- 31.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |x-----x-----x---|
FT |x-----x-----x---|
BD |x-----x-----x---|16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 32, 43, 44 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
115 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.
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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 20, 23, 24, 32, 43, 44 and 28 more.