89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-40, silence through bars 41-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-55, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 13 and 15, and 19 more places -- 32.6% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 67, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
97 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.
45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 67, 73, 74, 75, 76 and 2 more.