160 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:20 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-49 and 57-160 -- 90.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
9
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-xxxxx-xxx-x-x-x-xxxxx-xxx-|
SD |----x-----x---------x-----x---g-|
BD |x-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 8 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.
120 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.