141 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-97, snare through bars 98-105, toms through bars 106-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-141.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 15-24 and 26, and 14 more places -- 28.4% 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---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 41, 77, 97, 113 and 140.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
140 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.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
141 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.
3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 41, 77, 97, 113 and 140.