147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-37, silence through bars 38-50, hi-hat through bars 51-74 and snare through bars 75-78, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 21 more places -- 24.4% 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 |------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------o---------|
SD |--------------x-------------------------------x-----------------|
BD |----------g-------------------x-----------g-------g-----------x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
147 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 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.