230 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-41, silence through bars 42-44 and snare through bars 45-75, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 8 more places -- 16.7% 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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CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
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-|12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 48, 60, 62, 63, 69, 76 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
230 bars, about 6:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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 30 times: bars 48, 60, 62, 63, 69, 76 and 24 more.