86 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 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, hi-hat through bars 10-53, silence through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-60, silence through bars 61-62 and kick and crashes through bars 63-86.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 20-28 and 30-32, and 3 more places -- 47.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-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 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.
118 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.
37 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.
86 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.