116 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, silence through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-50, silence through bars 51-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-76, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 39-43, and 8 more places -- 91.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------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 8 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.
146 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.
30 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 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.