178 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and ride through bars 35-72, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 23 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 22 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
129 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
178 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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.
21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 22 and 37 more.