90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-90.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 7, and 21 more places -- 40.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxoxxxxxxxxxxxox|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx---x-|3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 15, 17, 31 and 33.
It cuts the song into 13 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.
104 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 how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
90 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.
3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 15, 17, 31 and 33.