163 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 112 BPM, 4:28 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.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18 and snare through bars 19-33, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 132, 134 and 136, and 13 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
132
1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------x-------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|25 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 67 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.
112 BPM, in 3/4, 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 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
163 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 73 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 67 more.