89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14 and ride through bars 15-18, and 24 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 17-18, and 11 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
5 6
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxxxx-xxxxx-x-x-|--------xxxxx-xx|
HH |-----x-----x----|x--xx-x------x--|
T1 |---------------x|--x-------------|
T2 |xxxx--xxxx--xx--|--------xxxx--xx|
FT |-----x-----x----|-------------x--|
BD |----------------|xx-xxx----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 89.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
87 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 89.