76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, silence through bars 37-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-54, silence through bars 55-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 21.8% 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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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----xxxxxxx-----x-----x-----x-----|
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 22 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.
107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
76 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.