81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-81.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-29, 34-48 and 65-80 -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xg-gxg-gxg-gxg-g|
SD |xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
FT |x--x--x--xx--xxx|
BD |X---X---X---X---|
HF |--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 15 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 sixteenth 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.
81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.