131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:41 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.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, ride through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-42 and ride through bars 43-48, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 32-37 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 21.4% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 16, 17 and 33 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.
109 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 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 16, 17 and 33 more.