72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-72.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 17 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |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 16 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.
90 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.
34 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.