104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-64, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 15.4% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
88 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 34 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 15, 16, 20 and 28 more.