78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom 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 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, silence through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-51, snare through bars 52-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-78.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 34-40 and 43-49, and 1 more place -- 51.4% 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 |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
104 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
78 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.