162 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-22, silence through bars 23-28 and ride through bars 29-46, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 22 and 45, and 18 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x---------------x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 44, 56, 68, 83, 91 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
120 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 6 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 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.
4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 36, 44, 56, 68, 83, 91 and 7 more.