101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-52, 65-70 and 82-85 -- 61.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----r-------r---|
T2 |----x-------x---|
FT |xx-x----xx-x----|
BD |xx-x----xx-x----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
77 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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.