81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
33 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 2-8, snare through bars 9-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30 and snare through bars 31-34, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 18-20 and 31-34, and 3 more places -- 50.7% 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
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
94 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.
33 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.