169 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-42, toms through bars 43-116, hi-hat through bars 117-118 and toms through bars 119-120, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 14 more places -- 16% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 163 and 164.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
118 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.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 163 and 164.