100 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-29, ride through bars 30-64, snare through bars 65-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-100.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-64 -- 36.5% 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---|
BD |--------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
122 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.
17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.