303 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 9:06 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-109, silence through bars 110-149 and hi-hat through bars 150-303.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 21-23, and 13 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------|
FT |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
BD |x-----------------------|3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
100 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
303 bars, about 9:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 44, 52, 60, 68, 76 and 5 more.