103 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-35, hi-hat through bars 36-75 and kick and crashes through bars 76-87, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 18-21 and 44-46, and 1 more place -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |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 23 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.
138 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.
30 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.