75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-38, silence through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-75.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-74 -- 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 18, 30, 34 and 54.
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.
90 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.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
75 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 18, 30, 34 and 54.