102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, toms through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18 and ride through bars 19-36, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 86-94, 96 and 98, and 1 more place -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
86 87
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |xxx---xxx---xxx---------xxx---xx|x---xxx---------xxx---xxx-------|14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 27 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.
106 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
102 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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.
14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 27 more.