117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-46 and ride through bars 47-54, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 38-43 -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
26 27
1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8.......
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BD |x-------x-------------------x-----------x-------------------x---|x-------x-------------------x-------x---x-----------x---x-------|8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
104 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.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 19 more.