101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19 and kick and crashes through bars 20-21, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 25-27 and 52-54, and 2 more places -- 33.3% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 101.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
80 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.
40 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 101.