123 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-38, silence through bars 39-51, snare through bars 52-53 and ride through bars 54-123.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 32 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 52, 53, 61, 69, 77, 85 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
130 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.
38 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 52, 53, 61, 69, 77, 85 and 1 more.