189 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-13, toms through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24 and ride through bars 25-39, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-30, 45-46 and 49-50, and 2 more places -- 10.1% 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.......
RD |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-|24 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 68 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
130 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.
84 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.
189 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 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.
24 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 2, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 68 more.