129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-42, ride through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-90 and ride through bars 91-106, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 34 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-----r---r-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 90 and 98.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
86 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.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 50, 90 and 98.