157 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-54, snare through bars 55-56, silence through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-116 and snare through bars 117-118, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 22 and 24-31, and 11 more places -- 51.6% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
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--|12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 29 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.
120 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 28 more.