64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-64.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-12, 31-36 and 55-59 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
5 6
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----x-----x-----x-x-x-x-----x-----x-----x-----|o-----x-x-x-x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-x-x-|
SD |------------x--------------x--------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 12 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.
80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
64 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.