174 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-24, ride through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 30-31, and 7 more places -- 14.7% 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-------|
SD |---------x----------------x--------------x--------------x-------|
BD |x---x----x---x-----x---x--x---x---x--x---x---x---x---x--x---x---|4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 24 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
174 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 14, 24 and 1 more.