74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:20 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-14, hi-hat through bars 15-23, toms through bars 24-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-39, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 24-26, and 6 more places -- 38% 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....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-------|--------x-----x---x-----x---x-x-|
T1 |----x---------------------------|----xxxxx-----x-----------------|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x---x---x---x-----|x-x----xx-x---x---x---x---x-----|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 23, 39, 61 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
88 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
74 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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.
4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 23, 39, 61 and 2 more.