189 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-31, ride through bars 32-43, hi-hat through bars 44-83, silence through bars 84-87, hi-hat through bars 88-99 and ride through bars 100-107, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-22, and 31 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o---o---o---o---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--|9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 40, 41, 42, 43, 67 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
135 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
189 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 17 times: bars 1, 40, 41, 42, 43, 67 and 11 more.