134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-25, toms through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-33, ride through bars 34-37, snare through bars 38-44 and ride through bars 45-62, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 3 more places -- 14.2% 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-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o--x--x--x--o--x--x--x--o--x--x--x--o--x--x--x--|------------o-----x-xx--o-----------o-----x-xx--|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----x-xx--x-----------x-----xx-x--x-----------|
HF |------------------------------------------------|---------------x-----------------------x--------|7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 61, 62, 64, 67, 71, 75 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 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.
7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 61, 62, 64, 67, 71, 75 and 9 more.