69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-69.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-27, 39-45 and 57-68 -- 39.1% 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.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
RD |----x-x-x---x-x-----x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 18 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
82 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
69 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 18 and 15 more.