109 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 2:37 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-45, snare through bars 46-47, hi-hat through bars 48-51, snare through bars 52-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-57, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 10 more places -- 47.7% 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+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xx|
HF |--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.
125 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.