75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 19-35 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 45.3% 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-------|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
82 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.
32 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
75 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
hi-hat, 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.