92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 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 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-48, silence through bars 49-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-92.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-43, 61-71 and 77-87 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
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 18 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.
90 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
92 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.