117 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-32, silence through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-66 and silence through bars 67-68, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-16 and 23-32, and 3 more places -- 59.5% 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
SD |x---x---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.
143 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.
32 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.