124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-66, snare through bars 67-92, hi-hat through bars 93-100, snare through bars 101-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-116, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-27 and 33-48 -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
12 13
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--------------------------x--x-x----------x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--------------------------x--x-x--------------------------|9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 43 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.
130 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 15 more.