118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
50 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 1-30, silence through bars 31-36, snare through bars 37-54, silence through bars 55-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-118.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-30 and 37-54 -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |---r--r----r--r-|
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 9 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.
50 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 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.