270 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 7:29 of playing, on ride, hi-hat and hi-hat foot.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, silence through bars 41-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-59, hi-hat through bars 60-96 and silence through bars 97-112, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 21-28 and 33-34, and 4 more places -- 22.1% 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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HH |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
270 bars, about 7:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.