108 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-108.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32 and 53-108 -- 76.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
115 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.