165 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 3-18, hi-hat through bars 19-86, toms through bars 87-94, hi-hat through bars 95-109, toms through bars 110-118 and hi-hat through bars 119-152, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23-25, and 12 more places -- 25.6% 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...........
HH |X--x--x--x-----x--x--x--X--x--x--x-----x--x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
138 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 10 more.