124 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.
silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-124.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 18 more places -- 62.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxooxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
147 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.