105 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-14, ride through bars 15-23, snare through bars 24-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40, snare through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-54, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 79-81, and 1 more place -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
7 8
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x---------------X-----------------------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x----x--------------------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------x----x---------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------x-----x----|
BD |x---------------x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---------------x---------------|10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10 and 36 more.