80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-9, ride through bars 10-18, snare through bars 19-27, ride through bars 28-44 and silence through bars 45-46, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 28-43 and 52-68, and 5 more places -- 61.3% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |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.
82 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.
32 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.