154 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25, snare through bars 26-41, silence through bars 42-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-50, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 26-41 and 51-70, and 5 more places -- 68.1% 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
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 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.
124 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.
35 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.
154 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.