154 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-82, ride through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-154.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18, and 20 more places -- 31.3% 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---x---|
SD |--g-----x-----g---g-----x-----gg|
BD |x---x-x---------x---x-x---------|13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 38, 46, 64, 68 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
137 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
154 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 38, 46, 64, 68 and 9 more.