169 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-71 and snare through bars 72-88, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37 and 39, and 12 more places -- 12% 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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BD |------x-----x-----x-----------------------x-----|33 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 76 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.
140 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
33 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 and 45 more.