61 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-22, ride through bars 23-39, silence through bars 40-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-61.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 12 more places -- 30% 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-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |--------x-x---x-|
BD |x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 38.
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.
122 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 38.