125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, 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 1-25, snare through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-46, hi-hat through bars 47-61 and toms through bars 62-63, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-70, 72-78 and 80-86 -- 16.8% 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...........
HH |------o--------------o--------------o-----------|
SD |x--------------x--------------x-----------------|
BD |------x--x-x-x-------x--x-x-x-------x--x-x-x-x--|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 62, 120 and 121.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 62, 120 and 121.