83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-34, silence through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-83.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-83 -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
38
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x--xx---x--x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
100 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.
45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.