142 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:27 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-60, ride through bars 61-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-70, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39 and 41, and 11 more places -- 20.3% 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---------------x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o---o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 36, 38 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
88 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 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 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.
18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 32, 36, 38 and 34 more.