61 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 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, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-30, silence through bars 31-36, toms through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-54, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 6 more places -- 33.3% 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---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 29, 37, 38 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
120 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.
36 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 6, 22, 29, 37, 38 and 7 more.