113 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
80 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 a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-48, 50-80 and 82-113 -- 85.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
18 19
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxxxxxx-oo|o-ooo-ooooooo-oo|
T1 |----------------|----x-----------|
T2 |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---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 12 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.
130 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.