103 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.
15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-42, silence through bars 43-46 and kick and crashes through bars 47-70, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-32, 47-70 and 81-102 -- 80.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
15 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.