135 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 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, hi-hat through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34, silence through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-80, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 29-34, and 9 more places -- 79.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--g---g---g---g-|
SD |----g-------g---|
BD |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 17 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.
39 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.