173 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and snare through bars 73-173.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 139-141, 145-147 and 151-153, and 3 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
139 140
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---X---|
SD |--------X-------|X---------------|
BD |----------x-----|--x-x-------x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|6 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 107 more.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
173 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
6 fills to learn, played 113 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 107 more.