158 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-28, hi-hat through bars 29-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-59, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 37-41 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 12.7% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 9, 22, 43, 44, 45 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 77 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 9, 22, 43, 44, 45 and 27 more.