128 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:08 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 how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52, ride through bars 53-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-85, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-5, 15-19 and 45-46, and 7 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------------------x---|x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o-------|----o---o---o---o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----xx----x-------x-x-----x---|x-----xx----x-----x---------xxxx|5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 14, 20, 28, 30, 31 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 33 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
128 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 14 times: bars 6, 14, 20, 28, 30, 31 and 8 more.