70 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-70.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-31 and 50-53 -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxo-xxx-xxo-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.
It cuts the song into 20 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.
135 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
70 bars, about 2:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.