192 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-33, hi-hat through bars 34-52, ride through bars 53-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-78, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-59, 61-67 and 69-71, and 9 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 127, 128, 134, 141, 142, 149 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
192 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 20 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.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 127, 128, 134, 141, 142, 149 and 2 more.