198 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 4:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, ride through bars 35-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-198.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-20 and 22, and 42 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x-----o-----x-----x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 34, 76, 85 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
87 BPM, in 2/4, 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.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
198 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 25, 34, 76, 85 and 15 more.