126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 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 bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-23, ride through bars 24-42, snare through bars 43-46 and ride through bars 47-54, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 18 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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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-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 37 times: bars 31, 32, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 31 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
126 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 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 37 times: bars 31, 32, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 31 more.