120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-23, ride through bars 24-34, hi-hat through bars 35-39 and snare through bars 40-50, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 7-8 and 10-11, and 6 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
4 5
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |------------------------xgxgxgxg|xgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxgxg|
HH |x-----------ooooo---------------|--------------------------------|
SD |------------x-x-----x---x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
T2 |x---------------x---------------|--------------------------------|
FT |----x---------------------------|--------------------------------|
BD |x---x---xxxxxxxxx---x---xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxx-x-xxxxxxxxx-x-xxxxxxxx|
HF |--------------------x-----------|--------------------------------|10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
110 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
120 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
10 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23 and 36 more.