88 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-56 and toms through bars 57-88.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-56 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
21
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-x---|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
88 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.