122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-33 and silence through bars 34-56, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 71-72 and 75-76, and 2 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-------x--x-x--x---x---x---x---x---x---x--x-x--|x---x---x---x---x---------------x-------x-------x--x-x--x-------|6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 74 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
109 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.
58 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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.
6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 74 and 2 more.