211 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 10:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-97, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-43, 45-46 and 48-49, and 8 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42 43
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---x---X---x---X---x---X---x---|X---x---X---x---X---x---X---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx-|--xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---|15 fills to learn, played 114 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 21 and 108 more.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
80 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 10:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
15 fills to learn, played 114 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 21 and 108 more.