132 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-42, hi-hat through bars 43-74, snare through bars 75-80, hi-hat through bars 81-93 and silence through bars 94-96, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 47-60 and 109-122 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-----x-----|7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 15, 20, 28, 36, 46 and 9 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.
141 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 15, 20, 28, 36, 46 and 9 more.