76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-13, silence through bars 14-16, toms through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-76.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 36-37 and 40-41, and 5 more places -- 20.6% 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.......
HH |-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 24, 26, 27 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
105 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 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
76 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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.
13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 24, 26, 27 and 19 more.