217 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-35, ride through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-60, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-35 and 41-55, and 12 more places -- 55.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 20 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.
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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
217 bars, about 6:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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.
18 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 24, 40, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 20 more.