159 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and ride through bars 35-40, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 27 and 29, and 15 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o-------o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|25 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 73 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
130 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 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
25 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 73 more.