172 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-30, silence through bars 31-36, ride through bars 37-96, toms through bars 97-112 and ride through bars 113-143, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-26, 39-41 and 45-46, and 12 more places -- 34.4% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
FT |x-------x-x-----|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 74, 96, 97, 120 and 121.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
142 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.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
172 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 6 times: bars 56, 74, 96, 97, 120 and 121.