101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, silence through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, snare through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-57, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 5 more places -- 9.2% 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...............
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 70, 71, 72 and 73.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
85 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 4 times: bars 70, 71, 72 and 73.