171 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, silence through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-115 and silence through bars 116-121, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-48 -- 27% 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+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--r---r---r---r-|10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 54, 94, 98, 114, 122, 130 and 21 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
135 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.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 54, 94, 98, 114, 122, 130 and 21 more.