105 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-7, silence through bars 8-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, silence through bars 49-68 and snare through bars 69-72, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 29-35 and 37-43, and 4 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-x---|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
118 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.
28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 30 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.