86 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, toms through bars 21-35, hi-hat through bars 36-44, toms through bars 45-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-60, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 26 more places -- 33.7% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
150 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.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
86 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.