115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4 and snare through bars 5-115.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 25 more places -- 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
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
88 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.
47 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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.