116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 3-20, hi-hat through bars 21-23, ride through bars 24-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-40 and toms through bars 41-52, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 39 and 63, and 1 more place -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
7 8
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-------x---x---x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|17 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 67 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
130 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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.
17 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 67 more.