130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-17, snare through bars 18-41, toms through bars 42-49, snare through bars 50-64 and toms through bars 65-82, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-64 and 83-89 -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-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 12 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.
102 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.
31 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.