112 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-41, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-13 and 16-17, and 4 more places -- 25.7% 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...........
SD |g--g--X--g--g--g--X--g--g--g--X--g--g--X--X--g--|
BD |x-----------x-----------x--------x-----x--------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
112 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
112 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 92.