131 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
35 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 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-52, silence through bars 53-69, hi-hat through bars 70-83 and toms through bars 84-87, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20, and 8 more places -- 32.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 92, 101, 102, 117, 118 and 1 more.
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.
142 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.
35 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 36, 92, 101, 102, 117, 118 and 1 more.