148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-10, hi-hat through bars 11-46, snare through bars 47-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-52 and ride through bars 53-67, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 17 and 19, and 9 more places -- 26.4% 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 |--o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 24, 25, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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.
9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 24, 25, 42, 43, 44, 45 and 23 more.