98 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-27, silence through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-68, snare through bars 69-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-98.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 38-43 and 84-98 -- 32.9% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 82.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
39 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 81 and 82.