74 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, snare through bars 25-30 and kick and crashes through bars 31-32, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 36-39 and 59-65 -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
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 23 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.
120 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.
38 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
74 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.