87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-50, silence through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-62, ride through bars 63-74 and snare through bars 75-78, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-26, 31-38 and 46, and 7 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
87 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 4 more.