187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 157 BPM, 3:35 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-21, hi-hat through bars 22-104, ride through bars 105-112, hi-hat through bars 113-132 and silence through bars 133-134, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 49 more places -- 31.5% 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+a
HH |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----------|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 77, 79, 117, 149, 150 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
157 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 37, 77, 79, 117, 149, 150 and 1 more.