113 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-48, ride through bars 49-50, snare through bars 51-56 and ride through bars 57-58, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-13, 18-32 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |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--|
HF |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 62, 63, 64, 73, 85 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
123 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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.
6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 41, 62, 63, 64, 73, 85 and 5 more.