147 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-23, ride through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-54, toms through bars 55-58, hi-hat through bars 59-84 and toms through bars 85-86, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-23 and 32-35, and 10 more places -- 37.7% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 15, 19, 27, 31, 39, 48 and 24 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.
124 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 15, 19, 27, 31, 39, 48 and 24 more.