188 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-25, ride through bars 26-27, snare through bars 28-42 and ride through bars 43-51, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-82, 85-86 and 89-90, and 10 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
81
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BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 21 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
117 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
188 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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.
9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 21 and 19 more.