161 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-15, snare through bars 16-55, hi-hat through bars 56-70 and ride through bars 71-75, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 5 more places -- 31.7% 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-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
120 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.