120 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-74, ride through bars 75-80 and toms through bars 81-82, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 14-21 and 31-38, and 1 more place -- 29.4% 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+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---|x---g---------------|
SD |--------------------|----------------f---|
BD |--------------------|----x-----x-x-------|5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 39, 63, 74, 81, 82 and 3 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.
132 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.
42 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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.
5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 22, 39, 63, 74, 81, 82 and 3 more.