65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is.
silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-65.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15-16, and 7 more places -- 31.1% 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.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-----xx--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
85 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.
65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
65 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 29.