101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-61, kick and crashes through bars 62-64, hi-hat through bars 65-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-71, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-8, 21-24 and 50-57 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x-----x-----x----x--x---|----x---x-----x-----x-------x---|
HH |o---o---xxxxxx------o---o---x-o-|o---o---o-----o-----o---o---o---|
BD |x-------------x---x-----xx----xx|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 35, 36, 40, 44, 45, 49 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
95 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 35, 36, 40, 44, 45, 49 and 10 more.