94 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-65, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 28.2% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
114 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
94 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.