148 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-19, toms through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48 and toms through bars 49-50, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 68-75 and 128-130, and 3 more places -- 19.7% 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-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
154 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20 and 28 more.