121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, ride through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-36, 61-63 and 65-67, and 7 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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 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.
36 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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.
11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 8 more.