98 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
42 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 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-32, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-20, 41-52 and 57-84, and 1 more place -- 49% 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---|
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 19 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.
115 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.
42 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.