140 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:15 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 1-10, ride through bars 11-16, silence through bars 17-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65, ride through bars 66-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-75, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-52, 55 and 57, and 16 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
51
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 53, 61, 64, 65, 89, 97 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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.
5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 53, 61, 64, 65, 89, 97 and 9 more.