129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-28, ride through bars 29-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-40, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 34 more places -- 39.1% 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.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|27 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
85 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.
27 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 43 more.