162 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-46, ride through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-52, snare through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-83, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 12 more places -- 10.5% 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...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|19 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 27, 38, 40 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 66 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.
90 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 7:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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.
19 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 27, 38, 40 and 49 more.