135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.
29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 3-130 and silence through bars 131-135.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 12-25 and 104-110, and 1 more place -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
29 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
135 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, 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.