149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 8:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-39, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 66-68 and 70-72, and 7 more places -- 11.2% 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.......
CC |x-------x-----------------------|
RD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 75 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.
76 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
149 bars, about 8:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 31 more.