81 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time.
kick and crashes through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-81.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-39, 41-48 and 50-55 -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |xxxxoxooxoxooxox|
SD |----x-------x---|
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 15 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.
145 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
81 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.