71 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:25 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.
silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21 and ride through bars 22-29, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 10 and 12, and 13 more places -- 43.5% 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...........
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 9, 21, 27, 37, 41 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
110 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 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
71 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 9 times: bars 3, 9, 21, 27, 37, 41 and 3 more.