152 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
The time is kept on the ride the whole way through.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 33 more places -- 76.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
1 2
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------------------------------|----------------x---------------|
RD |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-------------------|
SD |--------x-----g---g-x-----g---g-|x-----g---g---g-----x---xxxxX---|
BD |x-------------------------------|--------x-------x-------x-------|
HF |------------x---x-------x---x---|----x-------x-------------------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 6 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.
110 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.