223 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36 and ride through bars 37-43, and 25 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 37 and 39, and 13 more places -- 9% 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---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----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-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|25 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 57 more.
It cuts the song into 79 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.
130 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
223 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 25 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.
25 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 57 more.