100 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-19, hi-hat through bars 20-31, ride through bars 32-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-77, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 32-35 and 39-40, and 8 more places -- 27.7% 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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 99.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
100 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 99.