101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-60, snare through bars 61-69, toms through bars 70-73, hi-hat through bars 74-75, toms through bars 76-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-81, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-6 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 18.2% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x-|6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 33, 51, 52, 53, 56, 70 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
101 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
101 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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.
6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 33, 51, 52, 53, 56, 70 and 15 more.