130 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, ride through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-50 and snare through bars 51-53, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 10 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 37, 45, 52, 53 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
126 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.
36 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.
130 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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.
7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 36, 37, 45, 52, 53 and 10 more.