89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-27, ride through bars 28-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33, ride through bars 34-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-47, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-27, 31 and 33, and 9 more places -- 56.8% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----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 10 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.
90 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.
40 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
89 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.