122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-28, ride through bars 29-36, silence through bars 37-39 and toms through bars 40-41, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-26 and 80-87 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
19 20
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x-g-x-g-|x---x---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T2 |------------x---|------------x-x-|
BD |x-x---x---------|x-x---x---------|
HF |----------------|------------x---|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
100 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.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 1 time: bar 28.