168 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-36, toms through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47 and snare through bars 48-63, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 72-74, 76-78 and 88-90, and 3 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
72 73
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------------|------------------------x-------x---x---x---x-x-|12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 22, 26, 30, 34, 35 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
150 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 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 14 times: bars 9, 22, 26, 30, 34, 35 and 8 more.