207 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-81, hi-hat through bars 82-109, kick and crashes through bars 110-113 and hi-hat through bars 114-138, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-22, 32-34 and 36-40, and 16 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
10 11
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, 25 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
140 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
207 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 23, 25 and 34 more.