97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-97.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 9 more places -- 85.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-----x-xx------|1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 64, 80 and 88.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
94 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.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 40, 56, 64, 80 and 88.