203 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-31, ride through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-39, ride through bars 40-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-71, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 41 more places -- 59.1% 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...........
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BD |x-------x---------------x-------x---------------|9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 9, 49, 73, 101, 119 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
150 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
203 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 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 19 times: bars 1, 9, 49, 73, 101, 119 and 13 more.