62 bars, 3:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 7-12 and 22-24, and 9 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------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 13 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.
72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
62 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.