85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, 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 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60 and silence through bars 61-69, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-35, 37-40 and 45-60, and 1 more place -- 51.6% 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---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.
100 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.