113 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-36, snare through bars 37-44, toms through bars 45-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-64 and toms through bars 65-72, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-36, 65-72 and 98, and 3 more places -- 31.9% 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
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
128 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.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.