62 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 3:42 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-42 and silence through bars 43-62.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-36 -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
RD |g---g---g---g---g---x---g---g---g---g---g---x---|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
100 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
62 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.