123 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-34, toms through bars 35-37 and kick and crashes through bars 38-39, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 108-111 and 116-122 -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
108 109
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------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--|17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
110 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.
98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
123 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
17 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 30 more.