127 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 3:45 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-35, snare through bars 36-39, ride through bars 40-60, snare through bars 61-64 and ride through bars 65-85, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-30, 32-35 and 37-38, and 10 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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RD |x-----x-----|
SD |------r-----|
BD |x-----------|
HF |----x-----x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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 3/4, 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.
36 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.