125 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27, silence through bars 28-32 and snare through bars 33-39, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 85-87 and 89-91 -- 11.4% 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---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 22, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
112 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 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.
14 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 22, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 34 more.