171 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-19, toms through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38 and ride through bars 39-40, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-12 and 47-49, and 13 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 38 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
88 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.
171 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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.
14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 5, 20, 21, 22, 38 and 26 more.