88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-88.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 20-27 and 39, and 6 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----r-------r---|
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 18 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.
96 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.
44 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.
88 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.