134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 6:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-91, toms through bars 92-109, snare through bars 110-132 and toms through bars 133-134.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-10, and 14 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---o-------x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x---------------x-------|
BD |--x-x-------x---x-----x---x---x-|
HF |--------x-----------------------|8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 27, 52, 68, 69, 70, 72 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
85 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 6:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 27, 52, 68, 69, 70, 72 and 16 more.