167 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-35, ride through bars 36-62, hi-hat through bars 63-66 and ride through bars 67-70, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 30-31 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 6.2% 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...............5....... 1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------x-----------x-------x---|x-----------------------x-------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------------------------------|----x---x-------x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------o---o-------o---------------------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x-------------------x---x-------x-------x-x-x-x-------------|
T1 |------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------x-x---------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------x-x-----|
FT |------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------x-x-|
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-|--x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-------------------------|17 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 75 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 30 sittings, about 23 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.
17 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 75 more.