115 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, snare through bars 35-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-73, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 35-40 and 99-105 -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
10 11
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x--x--x--x-----------------x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--------------x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----|15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 16, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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 many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
115 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 16, 25, 29, 33, 34 and 16 more.