156 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.
silence through bars 1-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-156.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-31, 33-57 and 59, and 11 more places -- 90.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
17
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx----x-x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
118 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 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.