63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-63.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-53 and 55-62 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x---x---x-------x---x---|
SD |rr------x-rrrrrrrr------x-rrrrrr|
T2 |xx--------xxxxxxxx--------xxxxxx|
FT |--xxxx------------xxxx----------|
BD |--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 22 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.
77 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.
72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
63 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.