143 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-15, ride through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and toms through bars 35-40, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 95-105 and 113 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
95 96
1...............2...............3............... 1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |----------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------|
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BD |x-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-------|6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 33, 34, 83, 84, 85 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
110 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 12 times: bars 15, 33, 34, 83, 84, 85 and 6 more.