129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 5:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-35, snare through bars 36-48, ride through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-77 and toms through bars 78-89, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 49-51, and 2 more places -- 20.9% 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.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxx-xxx-x-xxx-xxx-xxx-x-xxx-x-x-|9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 52, 56, 61, 67, 69 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
93 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 40, 52, 56, 61, 67, 69 and 8 more.