103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-49 and toms through bars 50-53, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6, 8-9 and 26, and 4 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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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-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x---------------x-----------x-x-----------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----x-----x-----x---------------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------x-------x-----------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-----------x-------x-----------x-x---------|x-------x---------------------------------------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
103 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 36 more.