252 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-26, toms through bars 27-45, hi-hat through bars 46-78, snare through bars 79-80 and ride through bars 81-82, and 27 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-54, 89-98 and 100-102, and 6 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|21 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 46, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 91 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
140 BPM, in 4/4, 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
252 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
21 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 46, 55, 56, 58, 60, 62 and 91 more.