97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-22, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 32-34, and 6 more places -- 50.5% 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|11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 16, 21 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 24 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
97 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 11, 16, 21 and 10 more.