153 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, toms through bars 20-25, snare through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-47, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 34, and 16 more places -- 13.2% 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-------------------------------|
RD |----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|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|20 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 13, 15 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
135 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.
99 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.
153 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
20 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 13, 15 and 63 more.