288 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 152 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
snare through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-46, snare through bars 47-82, hi-hat through bars 83-106, snare through bars 107-169 and hi-hat through bars 170-197, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 31-32 and 37-38, and 13 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |X--g-g-g-g-g|-g--X--g-g-g|
BD |xxxx--x--x--|xxxx--x-x---|17 fills to learn, played 136 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 130 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
152 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
288 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
17 fills to learn, played 136 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 130 more.