152 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:11 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.
snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-68, toms through bars 69-70, hi-hat through bars 71-92, snare through bars 93-100 and ride through bars 101-110, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 46-48, and 5 more places -- 17.9% 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...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 13, 15, 16, 17, 29 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
145 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 25 sittings, about 23 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.
11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 13, 15, 16, 17, 29 and 17 more.