84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-40, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 22.5% 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---x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------x-----x-x-------x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----x---------x---x-|5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13 and 6 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
84 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13 and 6 more.