144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 8:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-122 and silence through bars 123-144.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-13 and 15-17, and 7 more places -- 43% 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 27.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
86 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 8:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 21 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 27.