100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, toms through bars 20-22 and ride through bars 23-25, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 8-12 and 23-24, and 7 more places -- 21.1% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 66 and 68.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
78 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.
25 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 66 and 68.