286 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 10:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-31, snare through bars 32-39 and kick and crashes through bars 40-43, and 33 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-15 and 21-25, and 18 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x|
SD |-----x-----------------------x------------------|
BD |-----------------x-----------------------x------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 286.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
114 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 how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
286 bars, about 10:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 286.