100 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
toms through bars 3-20, silence through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, toms through bars 35-45 and silence through bars 46-50, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 10 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
FT |x---x-x---x-----x-x---x-|
BD |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 15 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.
125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.