162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-43, silence through bars 44-48, toms through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-74, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 56-57 and 72-74, and 15 more places -- 27.7% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
140 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.
39 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 25, 26, 30, 34, 38, 41 and 26 more.