81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-53, silence through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-61, silence through bars 62-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-81.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-18, 20 and 22, and 11 more places -- 44.4% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--------------x|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 12 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.
80 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.
45 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.