177 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-57, hi-hat through bars 58-68 and ride through bars 69-71, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-32, 42-56 and 98-104, and 2 more places -- 27.8% 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-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 33, 41, 57 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
116 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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.
12 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 33, 41, 57 and 29 more.