174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 7:06 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-37, toms through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-61, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-45 and 62-69 -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
38 39
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|--------x---------------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---x-x-|
T2 |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 7:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 8 more.