91 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, ride through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 29-32 and 43-46, and 2 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
17
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.