132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
kick and crashes through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-66, kick and crashes through bars 67-71, snare through bars 72-78, silence through bars 79-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-90, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 59, and 9 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
25 26
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----------------x-----------x-----|------x-----x-----------x---x---x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 32, 40, 50, 52, 98 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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.
3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 32, 40, 50, 52, 98 and 2 more.