106 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
ride through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18, toms through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-41, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 21-40 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 59% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
T1 |--x---x---x---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 12 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.
110 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.
36 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
106 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.