131 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9 and ride through bars 10-11, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 52 and 54, and 13 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
50
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------------------|
SD |------------x--------x-----x--x--x-----------x--|
T1 |------------------------------------x--x--------|
T2 |------------------------------------------x-----|
FT |---x--x--x-----x--x-----------------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 49, 51, 53 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
127 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 49, 51, 53 and 28 more.