The drum beat in stack

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-65 and 68-83 -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

It is played on hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in thirty-second notes. On its own it scores 42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 65 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

There is not much to reduce here -- the room opens it near enough as written, at 40 BPM, and asks for it clean before it moves.

1. Skeleton. Only the notes that land on a beat. The point is to feel where this bar stands.
2. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
3. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
4. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Two tempos only, 40 and 46 BPM, and the gate at each is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.