66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-43 and silence through bars 44-50, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 35-36 and 41-42, and 2 more places -- 27.8% 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-------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 34.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
105 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
66 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 34.