116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
toms through bars 1-68, snare through bars 69-80, toms through bars 81-92, hi-hat through bars 93-100 and toms through bars 101-116.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-68, 81-92 and 101-116 -- 82.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----r-------r---|
FT |xxxxx-xxxxxxx-xx|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
99 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.
42 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.