106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-14, 17-18 and 63-66, and 2 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
11 12
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-----------x-------x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|--------------------x-------x---|
T2 |--------------------------------|----------------x-------x-------|
FT |--------------------------------|------------------x-------x-----|
BD |xxxxxxx---x-x---x-x---x-x-x---x-|xxxxxxx---x-x---x-x-----x-x-----|13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.
It cuts the song into 39 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.
91 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
106 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 15, 16, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 22 more.