104 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, silence through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 34-35, and 11 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
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 15 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.