75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-75.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-9 and 11, and 9 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------r-------------r-----r---|
BD |x---------------x---------------|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 25, 34, 35, 45 and 63.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
83 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
75 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 25, 34, 35, 45 and 63.