61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:21 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
29 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, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, ride through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-46, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 21-30 and 39-46, and 2 more places -- 53.6% 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-----|
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 6 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.
103 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.
29 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.