113 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19 and ride through bars 20-25, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 37-43 and 74-76 -- 14.5% 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...............
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |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---x---x---x---x---|10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35 and 9 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.
135 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 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.
10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35 and 9 more.