74 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 164 BPM, 2:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-50 and silence through bars 51-74.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24 and 41-47 -- 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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HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-----x-----------x-|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 25, 30, 40 and 48.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
164 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
74 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 25, 30, 40 and 48.