118 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-47, snare through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51 and kick and crashes through bars 52-55, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 83-87 and 93, and 1 more place -- 11.9% 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 |o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----|
SD |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--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 51 and 7 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 16, 19, 51 and 7 more.