98 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 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, silence through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25 and snare through bars 26-29, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 3 more places -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---------------x-------x-----------------------x-------x-------|17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
150 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
98 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 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.
17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17 and 17 more.