129 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 125 BPM, 3:25 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39, snare through bars 40-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-72, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-38, 49-54 and 81-86 -- 14.3% 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............... 1...............2...............3...............
HH |o-------o---o-------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---x---x---x---|
BD |----x-x---x-----x-------x-------x-------x-x---x-|----x-------x-------x-------x-x-----------------|29 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 50 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
125 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
29 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 18 and 50 more.