133 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-130 and kick and crashes through bars 131-133.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22 and 24, and 14 more places -- 58.1% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
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 9 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.
120 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.
27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many limbs land on the same note the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
133 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 32 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.