116 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-47, hi-hat through bars 48-50, snare through bars 51-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-71, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-44 and 51-68, and 2 more places -- 52.3% 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
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 16 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.
120 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.
32 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.
116 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.