95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-54, silence through bars 55-65, kick and crashes through bars 66-67, silence through bars 68-69 and snare through bars 70-95.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-36, 39-54 and 71-95 -- 92.6% 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
SD |----X-------X---|
BD |X--X-X-X-XX--X-X|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 5 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.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
95 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.