66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, silence through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and silence through bars 27-28, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-19 and 22, and 4 more places -- 36.2% 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-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 15 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.
98 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
66 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.