191 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-70, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-107, 109-111 and 113-128 -- 11.6% 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...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 44, 62, 80, 84, 88, 100 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
140 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
191 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 44, 62, 80, 84, 88, 100 and 4 more.