128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 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.
toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-54 and ride through bars 55-78, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 70 and 74, and 3 more places -- 11% 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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BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 12, 24, 28 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
100 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.
128 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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.
14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 12, 24, 28 and 26 more.