114 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-50, silence through bars 51-55, hi-hat through bars 56-95, silence through bars 96-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-114.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25-31, and 20 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
21
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------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 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.
128 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.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.