177 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 49-56 and 65-72, and 1 more place -- 54.2% 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
HH |oooooooooooooooo|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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.
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.
52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 7:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.