254 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 11:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-48, silence through bars 49-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-69 and snare through bars 70-71, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 192-199, 212-219 and 228-235 -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------x-------x-------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-----------------------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 14 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
90 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
254 bars, about 11:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 14 and 31 more.