290 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, silence through bars 12-28, ride through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53 and silence through bars 54-78, and 32 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 51 and 79, and 20 more places -- 11.1% 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...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x-------x---------------x---------------x-------|25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 48, 52, 78 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 86 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.
100 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.
57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
290 bars, about 11:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 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.
25 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 28, 32, 44, 48, 52, 78 and 49 more.