108 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-56, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 31-32 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 51.6% 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
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 9 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.
140 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.