107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 1-5, ride through bars 6-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47 and ride through bars 48-107.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 12, and 15 more places -- 19.4% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx--x--xx-|
HF |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
107 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 30 more.