179 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 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 5-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-179.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-63 and 67, and 17 more places -- 59.4% 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.....
HH |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------------r-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 123, 124, 158, 165 and 166.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
135 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 14 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 123, 124, 158, 165 and 166.