121 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-59, snare through bars 60-75, hi-hat through bars 76-84, snare through bars 85-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-121.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-10, and 22 more places -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |---g--g--g-----g--g-----x-----g--g-----g--g--g--|
BD |x-----------x--------x--------------------------|8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 61, 63, 67, 71, 73 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
128 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 61, 63, 67, 71, 73 and 15 more.