117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:26 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, toms through bars 43-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-64, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19, 24-25 and 27, and 7 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
24 25
1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x---------------x---X---|----x---x---x-----------|
HH |----o-o-o-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|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|xxxx----x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 50 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.
150 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 98 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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.
18 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 and 50 more.