72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-72.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 41-60 -- 65.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.
It cuts the song into 14 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.
76 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
72 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.