73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-73.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 57-60 and 65-72 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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 24 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.
97 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.
37 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
73 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.