145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, ride through bars 39-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-44, 46-52 and 54, and 6 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |---------------------------------------------x--|
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 105, 109, 113, 129, 133 and 8 more.
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.
105 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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.
7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 21, 105, 109, 113, 129, 133 and 8 more.