138 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-70, ride through bars 71-85 and snare through bars 86-114, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 49 and 51, and 13 more places -- 20.3% 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-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
140 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 19 more.