143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-39, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-69, 106-108 and 110-112, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|21 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 9, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
120 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
21 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 9, 20, 22, 25, 26 and 16 more.