130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 6:03 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-130.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15-16, and 15 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
86 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.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, 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.