197 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-77, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 23 more places -- 13.5% 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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BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|32 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 61 more.
It cuts the song into 93 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
197 bars, about 5:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 30 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.
32 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 6, 10, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 61 more.