179 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-69, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 54-56, and 3 more places -- 10.2% 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............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x-----------x-------x-----------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|o---------------o-----------------------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-----------x-------x-----------|18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
179 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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.
18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 1, 5, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 43 more.