132 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor 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 1-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-70, snare through bars 71-85, hi-hat through bars 86-125 and snare through bars 126-132.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-25, 70-85 and 126-132 -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
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 24 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.
135 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.