67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-34 and snare through bars 35-36, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 20-21, and 8 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 42, 46 and 62.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
88 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.
39 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.
67 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 22, 42, 46 and 62.