146 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:49 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.
toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, ride through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-20 and ride through bars 21-23, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13 and 121-132 -- 12.5% 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 |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 7, 14, 22, 23, 61 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
120 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 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 21 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.
10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 7, 14, 22, 23, 61 and 11 more.