129 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-36, toms through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-75, hi-hat through bars 76-82 and snare through bars 83-89, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 22-24, and 11 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 5, 21, 29, 36, 37 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
130 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 4, 5, 21, 29, 36, 37 and 23 more.