116 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-87, silence through bars 88-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-116.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-34, 55-70 and 93-116 -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x---x---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 17 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.
132 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.