121 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.
snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-97 and silence through bars 98-105, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 34-53 and 70-84, and 2 more places -- 68.9% 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
RD |x---x---x---x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
118 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.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.