105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 5:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 2-14, silence through bars 15-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-59, kick and crashes through bars 60-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-71, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 44-50 and 52-59, and 2 more places -- 44.6% 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.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-----------x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
79 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 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.
105 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.