92 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
snare through bars 1-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-34, ride through bars 35-39, snare through bars 40-55, kick and crashes through bars 56-63 and ride through bars 64-72, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 15-21, and 6 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |g-----g--g--g-----g--g--|
BD |x-----------x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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.
41 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
92 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.