167 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, silence through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-69, silence through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-86, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 26 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x---------|
T2 |------------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 26 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.
134 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.
34 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.