101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-28, hi-hat through bars 29-33, snare through bars 34-43, hi-hat through bars 44-57 and silence through bars 58-60, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-28 and 82-84 -- 26.3% 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.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 30, 32, 46, 48, 50 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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.
86 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 30, 32, 46, 48, 50 and 17 more.