68 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-52, toms through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-68.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 19-52 -- 73.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-x-x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
135 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
68 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.