126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.
ride through bars 1-63, silence through bars 64-87 and ride through bars 88-126.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 16, and 17 more places -- 58.8% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g--x--g-g--x--g|
BD |--x-------x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
104 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.
54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
126 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.