87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-29, toms through bars 30-31, snare through bars 32-48 and ride through bars 49-65, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-38, 40-46 and 66-72, and 3 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---|
SD |--------x-----g---x-----x-----g-|
BD |x---x---------------x-----------|10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 30, 31, 39, 47, 51 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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 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.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
87 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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.
10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 30, 31, 39, 47, 51 and 7 more.