128 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, 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 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-36, ride through bars 37-48, hi-hat through bars 49-66, snare through bars 67-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-90, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 31-36 and 49-54, and 5 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |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 19 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.
154 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.