145 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35, ride through bars 36-41, silence through bars 42-55 and snare through bars 56-77, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 36-40 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 54.8% 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.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
120 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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.
9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69 and 13 more.