127 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, silence through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-68, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-54, 116-118 and 120-122, and 1 more place -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 107, 108 and 109.
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.
148 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.
34 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 3 times: bars 107, 108 and 109.