191 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 9:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-35, toms through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-60, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11-15 and 31, and 10 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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 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.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 9:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 29 more.