120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
kick and crashes through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-96, ride through bars 97-104 and kick and crashes through bars 105-120.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 23.3% 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...............
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 24 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 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.
59 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.