109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and hi-hat foot.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
toms through bars 2-103 and silence through bars 104-109.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-53 and 73-80 -- 58.8% 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
SD |x-x-x---x-x-----|
T1 |----x-----x-----|
T2 |x-x-----x-------|
HF |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 10 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.
39 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
snare, high tom, mid tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.