162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-39, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 52, and 10 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
52
1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---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---x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 39, 43, 49, 77 and 4 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
162 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 23 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 39, 43, 49, 77 and 4 more.