77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-77.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 15-16 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x---x---x-x---x-x-----|
HF |----x-------x-------x-------x---|5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 11, 13, 23, 25, 33, 37 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 22 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.
94 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 97 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 17 times: bars 11, 13, 23, 25, 33, 37 and 11 more.