81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-30, ride through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-51 and ride through bars 52-54, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 28-30 and 34-51, and 2 more places -- 77.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-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 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.
90 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.
40 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.