140 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:16 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-55, ride through bars 56-79, hi-hat through bars 80-91, ride through bars 92-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-140.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 18.6% 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---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------x-----------x-----------x-------|8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 17, 21, 41, 57 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
131 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 22 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.
8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 17, 21, 41, 57 and 9 more.