120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-26 and ride through bars 27-30, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-32, 43-44 and 113-114, and 1 more place -- 7% 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...............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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 24, 26, 27 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 17, 18, 24, 26, 27 and 24 more.