142 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, snare through bars 25-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-12 and 19-22, and 8 more places -- 33.1% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 5, 15, 16, 18, 47 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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 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.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
142 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, 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.
20 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 5, 15, 16, 18, 47 and 23 more.