106 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, snare through bars 23-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-106.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 15, and 3 more places -- 15.7% 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---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---|12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 25, 29, 34 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
106 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 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.
12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 25, 29, 34 and 11 more.