80 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 3:40 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-80.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-44 and 72-78 -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
73 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
80 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 45.