81 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
35 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, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-27, hi-hat through bars 28-41 and toms through bars 42-44, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 6 more places -- 28.6% 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
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 25, 46 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
113 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.
35 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 14, 25, 46 and 5 more.