162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 7:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-64, ride through bars 65-81, hi-hat through bars 82-105 and ride through bars 106-123, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-56 and 58-60, and 5 more places -- 15.7% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 49, 67, 79, 81, 105, 121 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
85 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 7:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 49, 67, 79, 81, 105, 121 and 2 more.