165 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-155 and snare through bars 156-165.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-87, 89-91 and 93-144, and 2 more places -- 87.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 153.
It cuts the song into 10 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 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.
64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 153.