185 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-180 and snare through bars 181-185.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-46, 81-86 and 107-122, and 1 more place -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x---------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 58, 134 and 162.
It cuts the song into 38 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 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.
34 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 58, 134 and 162.