85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36 and 73-76 -- 42.4% 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-xxx-xxx-xxx-o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
94 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.
39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.