124 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-31, toms through bars 32-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-46, 82-91 and 93, and 3 more places -- 36.6% 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
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |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 18 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.
135 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.
23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.