217 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 27, and 23 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|25 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19 and 74 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
217 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 80 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 12, 18, 19 and 74 more.