155 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 149 BPM, 6:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-44, ride through bars 45-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-76, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 29-32 and 37, and 10 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 77, 78, 83, 84, 89 and 90.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
149 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
26 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
155 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 77, 78, 83, 84, 89 and 90.