99 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 2:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-25, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-52, 55-56 and 91-93, and 1 more place -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
51
1...............2...............3...............
HH |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---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 16, 17, 18, 24, 37 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
145 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 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 16, 17, 18, 24, 37 and 20 more.