99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-19, ride through bars 20-30, hi-hat through bars 31-54, ride through bars 55-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-65, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 24-29 and 48, and 6 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 30, 34, 42 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
78 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.
42 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 13, 20, 30, 34, 42 and 12 more.