102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 2:35 of playing on snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-34, toms through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-62, toms through bars 63-76 and snare through bars 77-94, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 36-41 and 63-76, and 1 more place -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......
SD |------------x-----------|
FT |x-x-x-x---g---x-x-x-g---|
BD |x-----------------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
125 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
102 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.