64 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on ride, hi-hat and snare.
45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
ride through bars 1-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-64.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
120 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.
45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
64 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat and snare. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.