126 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-39, hi-hat through bars 40-85 and toms through bars 86-89, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 55, and 3 more places -- 8.8% 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...............
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
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---|19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
126 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 43 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26 and 37 more.