132 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
35 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, hi-hat through bars 5-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-19, hi-hat through bars 20-54, snare through bars 55-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-68, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 14 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------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 28 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.
140 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.
35 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.