235 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 6:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-89, silence through bars 90-92, hi-hat through bars 93-108, snare through bars 109-112, toms through bars 113-114 and snare through bars 115-125, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 134-145, 155-166 and 184-192, and 5 more places -- 22.8% 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-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 125 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
154 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
235 bars, about 6:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 125 and 7 more.