101 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 3:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-39, ride through bars 40-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-63, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-38 -- 15.5% 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...........5...........6...........7...........8...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----x-----x--x--x-----x-----|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 21, 39, 40, 41 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
180 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 21, 39, 40, 41 and 7 more.