216 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 11:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and toms through bars 21-24, and 40 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 15-16 and 31-32, and 3 more places -- 5.7% 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............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------|x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------|
SD |----g-------g-g-----g-----------x---g-------g-g-----g-------g---|----g-------g-g-----g-----------x---g---------------------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------g-g-----------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-----------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x-------x-------|x-----------x-----------x---x-------x-----------x-------x-------|15 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 14, 16, 17 and 101 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
76 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
216 bars, about 11:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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.
15 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 14, 16, 17 and 101 more.