121 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-38, ride through bars 39-42, snare through bars 43-56 and toms through bars 57-64, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 31-38 and 96-103 -- 20% 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-----|
BD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 75.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
121 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 19 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 75.