190 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, silence through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-24 and silence through bars 25-26, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24 and 49-60 -- 10.5% 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...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 42, 43, 164 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
190 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 14 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 42, 43, 164 and 8 more.