144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-52, hi-hat through bars 53-64, ride through bars 65-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-75, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 30, and 4 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
14
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
104 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 22 sittings, about 22 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 25.