131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-72, ride through bars 73-79, hi-hat through bars 80-108, snare through bars 109-122 and toms through bars 123-124, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-35, and 13 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 44, 48, 55 and 24 more.
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.
100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 16, 36, 44, 48, 55 and 24 more.