211 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 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 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-97, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-43, 45-46 and 48-49, and 8 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
42 43
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X---x---X---x---X---x---X---x---|X---x---X---x---X---x---X---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx-|--xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---xxx---|12 fills to learn, played 128 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 16 and 122 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
115 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 7:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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.
12 fills to learn, played 128 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 16 and 122 more.