117 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note.
silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, silence through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, silence through bars 17-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-26, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8 and 15-16 -- 8.3% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 9 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.
124 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.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.