140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40 and snare through bars 41-44, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28, 33 and 37-44, and 7 more places -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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SD |--------x--x----|
BD |x-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 16 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.
106 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.
31 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.