176 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-37, silence through bars 38-49, hi-hat through bars 50-79 and snare through bars 80-81, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 5 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|----------------x-----x---x-----|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-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-------------------------|12 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 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.
142 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 25 sittings, about 23 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 39 times: bars 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 more.