111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56, hi-hat through bars 57-86, silence through bars 87-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-111.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 41-52 and 73-86, and 1 more place -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x-o-o---x---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
FT |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|x--x--x---x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
130 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.