140 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, ride through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, silence through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-64, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-48, 53-57 and 59, and 1 more place -- 64.7% 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-------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 14 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.
112 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.
43 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.
140 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.