165 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-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-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 100.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
120 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 100.