145 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-27, ride through bars 28-39, hi-hat through bars 40-55 and ride through bars 56-65, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 8 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|14 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 49 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
145 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 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 16 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.
14 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 49 more.