60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 2:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-38, silence through bars 39-44 and toms through bars 45-60.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 9 more places -- 25% 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
CC |x---------x-x---|
SD |--------x-------|
FT |x-xx--xx------xx|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
99 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.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
60 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 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.