119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-119.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 20-33 and 36-38, and 14 more places -- 77.3% 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 |--o---o---o---o-|
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 5 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.
104 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.
40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
119 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.