109 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-17 and ride through bars 18-26, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-37, 94-96 and 98-100, and 1 more place -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
35 36
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--------g-----------------------g-------------------------------|g-------------------------------g-------g-------g-------g-------|
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BD |--------x-------x---------------x---------------x---------------|----------------x---------------x-------x-------x-------x-------|14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 16 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 56 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.
142 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 16 and 19 more.