132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, ride through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-50, ride through bars 51-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-81, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 21-26 and 28, and 7 more places -- 23.6% 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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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------r-------|
BD |x-------------x-|7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 11, 17, 19, 48, 49, 57 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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 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.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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.
7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 11, 17, 19, 48, 49, 57 and 14 more.