69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
57 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 9-54, silence through bars 55-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-69.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 16-17 and 20-21, and 8 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
10 11
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--x--|x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----x--x--|------------x-----------------x--------------x--|
BD |x-----x-----------------------x-----------------|x--------------------x--x-----------------------|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 44, 45 and 46.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
102 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.
57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
69 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 44, 45 and 46.