79 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:52 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.
toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and ride through bars 37-48, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 21, and 6 more places -- 20.3% 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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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---xx--x---x---x---xx--x---|7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 12, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
110 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.
79 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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.
7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 12, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 15 more.