81 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on snare, floor tom and kick.
11 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-74 and toms through bars 75-81.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 17, and 15 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x---------------|
BD |x---x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
128 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.
11 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
snare, floor tom and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.