77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:56 of playing, on snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-40 and snare through bars 41-77.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-56 and 58-77 -- 59% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxX-X-----|
BD |x-----------x---x---------------|
HF |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 9 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.
105 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.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.