96 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and kick and crashes through bars 73-76, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 57-72 and 81-91, and 1 more place -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----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.
128 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
96 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.