106 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-22, snare through bars 23-69, toms through bars 70-71 and kick and crashes through bars 72-80, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-11, 23-25 and 28-29, and 5 more places -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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SD |---x--x----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 11 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.
127 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.
36 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.
106 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.