78 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, silence through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-37, silence through bars 38-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-78.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 22.8% 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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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 24 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.
117 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.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
78 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.