181 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-52 and snare through bars 53-65, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 13 more places -- 22.1% 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-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 18 and 25 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.
140 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.
89 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.
181 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 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.
19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 2, 3, 5, 6, 12, 18 and 25 more.