196 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-29, ride through bars 30-61 and toms through bars 62-68, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 10 more places -- 28.9% 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...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 19, 28, 29, 37, 45, 83 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
140 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
196 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 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.
12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 19, 28, 29, 37, 45, 83 and 14 more.