117 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, snare through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-85, snare through bars 86-89 and silence through bars 90-98, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 33-40 and 49-72, and 2 more places -- 56.4% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 16 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.
114 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.
41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.