105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 1-47, silence through bars 48-49, toms through bars 50-52, ride through bars 53-69, hi-hat through bars 70-77 and ride through bars 78-85, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-14, 16-22 and 24-30, and 2 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...............2...............3............... 1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
FT |--------------------------------x-------x-------|x-------------------------------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------------x-------x---------------x-------|x---------------x-------x---------------x---x---|8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
100 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 more.