64 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-64.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 19 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|
BD |x--xx--xx--xx--x|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 40 and 52.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
140 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
64 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 4, 16, 24, 28, 40 and 52.