108 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 bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-70, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 22-23, and 3 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
12 13
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x---------------x---------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x---|----x---x---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---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------x-----|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-x---------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x---x-x-|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-----------------|12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, 19 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
108 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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.
12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, 19 and 28 more.