142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 6:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-19, snare through bars 20-25, hi-hat through bars 26-34, snare through bars 35-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-54, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-18, 26 and 28, and 6 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------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 35 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.
84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 6:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.