71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6 and ride through bars 7-71.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27 and 43-70 -- 53.7% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x-------x----|
T1 |x--x----x--x----|
T2 |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 14 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.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
71 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.