125 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, ride through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-40 and ride through bars 41-52, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 11 more places -- 18.5% 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--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g--|
BD |f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--f--|12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 32 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
122 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 20, 32 and 30 more.