101 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-34, toms through bars 35-41, hi-hat through bars 42-62, toms through bars 63-69, silence through bars 70-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-94, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25 and 43-53 -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x-------x-----|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
124 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 the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.