187 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 7:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-15, toms through bars 16-17, ride through bars 18-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 18-25 and 34-40, and 2 more places -- 39.2% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
T2 |------xx------xx|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 16, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
104 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 15, 16, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 2 more.