136 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22 and ride through bars 23-26, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-42, 84-91 and 94-99, and 2 more places -- 21.3% 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 |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |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--|5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 44, 46 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
145 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 26, 28, 30, 32, 44, 46 and 8 more.