178 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 6:42 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
54 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 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24, toms through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 130-143 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
130 131
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |----x-x-o---x-x-o---x-x-|o---x-x-o---x-x-o---x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
T1 |------------------x-----|------------------x-----|
T2 |--------------------x---|----------------------x-|
FT |----------------------x-|------------------------|
BD |x---------x-------------|x---------x-------------|22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 25, 26, 32, 37, 38, 40 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
130 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 25, 26, 32, 37, 38, 40 and 31 more.