97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-77, snare through bars 78-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-97.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 3 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
100 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 23 more.