199 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-32, 37-40 and 65-72, and 4 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
65
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 56, 60, 62, 97, 141 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
150 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
199 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 19 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.
8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 56, 60, 62, 97, 141 and 8 more.