97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-48, snare through bars 49-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73 and snare through bars 74-97.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-40, 49-57 and 64, and 1 more place -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 59 and 60.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
90 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.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 59 and 60.