124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:12 of playing, on snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, silence through bars 29-44 and toms through bars 45-60, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-60, 69-88 and 109-124 -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
45
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |x-----x-----xx--|
FT |--------------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 8 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 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.
14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.