90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-15, snare through bars 16-17 and kick and crashes through bars 18-29, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-81 and 84-90 -- 19.2% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
90 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.