140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, silence through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-70, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 26-40 and 56-60, and 4 more places -- 51.2% 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
HH |--xxxxxx--xxxxxx|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
120 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 much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.