66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:50 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
26 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-19, ride through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27 and silence through bars 28-30, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 31-43 and 50-65 -- 69% 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
RD |x---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 12 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.
93 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.
26 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 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
66 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.