150 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-42, ride through bars 43-62, snare through bars 63-70 and ride through bars 71-106, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-54, 61-62 and 71-78, and 4 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
53 54
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |X--------X--X--------X-----X--------X-----X-----|---X--------X--------X-----X--------X--X--------|
SD |---g--g--------g--g-----X-----g--g-----g-----g--|g-----g--g-----g--g-----X-----g--g--------g--g--|
BD |x--------x--x--------x-----x--------x-----x-----|---x--------x--------x-----x--------x--x--------|6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 10 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.
148 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 10 more.