139 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, snare through bars 34-37, ride through bars 38-44 and snare through bars 45-53, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10 and 17, and 8 more places -- 13.7% 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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RD |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-|
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-|18 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 15 and 78 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
135 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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.
18 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 13, 15 and 78 more.