81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, silence through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-61, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17-27 and 29-36, and 3 more places -- 96.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----r--r-r--r---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 8 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.
97 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.
60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.