136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:11 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.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-29, ride through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-41, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-53, 55-58 and 63-65, and 2 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
51 52
1...............2...............3............... 1...............2...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
136 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 24 sittings, about 23 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.
17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22 and 36 more.