180 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 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, ride through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-45, hi-hat through bars 46-85 and ride through bars 86-90, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 30 and 47, and 15 more places -- 23.3% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 31, 32 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
125 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.
40 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
180 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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.
7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 31, 32 and 14 more.