125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-17, silence through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29, and 8 more places -- 27.8% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.
It cuts the song into 25 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 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.
38 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 65.