136 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, ride through bars 41-57, hi-hat through bars 58-75 and ride through bars 76-91, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-13 and 15-20, and 1 more place -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
6
1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 21, 57, 62 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
125 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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.
12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 14, 21, 57, 62 and 8 more.