137 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-24, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 98-104 and 106-112, and 4 more places -- 20.7% 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...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 21 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.
150 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 21 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.
20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 21 more.