138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-34, hi-hat through bars 35-53, ride through bars 54-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-12 and 19-25, and 8 more places -- 45.3% 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...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 33, 34, 42, 57 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 33, 34, 42, 57 and 15 more.