160 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-90, snare through bars 91-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-160.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-55, 66-88 and 121-125, and 4 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
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 30 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.
135 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.
47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.