98 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
62 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 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, snare through bars 19-28, toms through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-43, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 40 and 90-92 -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------------------------------x-------x-------|x---------------------------------------x-----------------------|15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 21 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
110 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 12, 21 and 22 more.