136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-42, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 51-65 and 94-108, and 1 more place -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 20, 36, 66, 82, 84, 109 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
106 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 20, 36, 66, 82, 84, 109 and 2 more.