115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-90, snare through bars 91-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-101, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-34, 39-90 and 95-101, and 1 more place -- 92.2% 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-x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
86 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.
37 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.