84 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, ride through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25 and ride through bars 26-28, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 36-43 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
36 37
1...............2...............3...............4...............5............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............
CC |x---------------x----------------------------------------------------------x----|x---------------x-------x-------x------------------------------------------x----|
RD |----x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x-----------------------------------|----x---x---x-----------------------x---x---x-----------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------o----o-----o----o----o----------|------------------------------------------------o----o-----o----o----o----------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x----x----x----x-----x----x----x--|--x---x---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----x-----x----|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
120 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
84 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 19 sittings, about 22 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.
5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 10 more.