127 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-25 and ride through bars 26-40, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 60-65 -- 5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
60 61
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-|12 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 53 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
127 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 53 more.