123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-30 and toms through bars 31-38, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-30 -- 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...............
RD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
SD |----x---r---r---r---x---r---x---r---r---r---x---r---r---r---x---|
BD |x-------x-------------------------------------------------------|
HF |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 38, 47, 48, 49, 62, 63 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
88 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 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.
12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 38, 47, 48, 49, 62, 63 and 19 more.