163 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-163.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 39 more places -- 73.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx|
SD |----xg------xx--|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 7 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.
114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 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.