122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 2-19, snare through bars 20-26, ride through bars 27-49, snare through bars 50-56, ride through bars 57-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-87, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 3 more places -- 15% 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---|
RD |--g-g-x-g-g-x-g-g-x-g-g---------|
SD |-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 24 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
108 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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.
14 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 19, 24 and 27 more.