171 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:50 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 bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-51, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 27 more places -- 17.9% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-----x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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 sixteenth 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 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 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.
23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 45 more.