87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 2-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34, ride through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-51 and ride through bars 52-59, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 35-42 and 52-59, and 1 more place -- 37.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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CC |x---------------|
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 10 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.
87 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.
86 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.
87 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 5 sittings, about 20 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.