80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-32, silence through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-57, silence through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-64, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 16-19, and 11 more places -- 68.4% 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------xx-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.
76 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.
38 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.