116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 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 9-20, ride through bars 21-23, snare through bars 24-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and ride through bars 42-51, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 4 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--x---xx--x---xx--|16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 25 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.
87 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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.
16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 25 more.