83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-83.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 19-33 and 40, and 5 more places -- 42.7% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
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 14 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.
88 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.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
83 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.