128 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-21, hi-hat through bars 22-37, snare through bars 38-54, toms through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-60, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 22-28 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 32% 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...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
130 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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.
14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 and 17 more.