118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, silence through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-67, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-42 and 72-86 -- 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
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 55, 98, 106, 109 and 117.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
90 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.
37 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 55, 98, 106, 109 and 117.