158 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-44, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 27 and 29, and 15 more places -- 16.6% 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.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 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.
18 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 46 more.