120 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-60, hi-hat through bars 61-76 and silence through bars 77-80, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 61-67 and 69-75, and 5 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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 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.
31 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.