100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-73, silence through bars 74-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-100.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28, 41-44 and 65-68 -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----xx------xx--|
BD |xx-x--xxxx----xx|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
98 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 81.