236 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:42 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.
toms through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-17, silence through bars 18-30, toms through bars 31-36, snare through bars 37-41 and silence through bars 42-44, and 23 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 57-58, and 6 more places -- 9.5% 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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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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|29 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 52 more.
It cuts the song into 95 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.
140 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 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
236 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 95 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 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.
29 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 52 more.