135 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-29, ride through bars 30-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-71 and ride through bars 72-87, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24 and 52-66 -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|----x-----------|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 51, 71, 75 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
138 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.
38 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 29, 33, 51, 71, 75 and 7 more.