156 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
ride through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-29, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 110-112 and 114-117, and 2 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
110 111
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------f-------------------------------|
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-----------------------------------|19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 38, 44, 49 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 28 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.
19 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 38, 44, 49 and 31 more.