170 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-27, toms through bars 28-35 and ride through bars 36-39, and 20 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-42, 54 and 83, and 7 more places -- 7.1% 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.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|25 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 75 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
110 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
170 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 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.
25 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 75 more.