110 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-41, snare through bars 42-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-73, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52, 54 and 56, and 5 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
52
1...............2...............
CC |x-------------------x-----------|
HH |----o---------------------------|
SD |----x---------------------------|
BD |x-----------x---x---x-------x---|7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 19, 39, 40 and 15 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.
125 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
110 bars, about 3:33 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 and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 19, 39, 40 and 15 more.