144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19, ride through bars 20-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-73, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 57-63, and 4 more places -- 33.3% 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...............
HH |o---------------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--|13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 47, 48, 55 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
130 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.
87 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.
144 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 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.
13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 47, 48, 55 and 20 more.