138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-42 and toms through bars 43-44, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
26
1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-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-|20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 22, 23, 24 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
120 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.
97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 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 36 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 22, 23, 24 and 30 more.