125 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-74, ride through bars 75-90, toms through bars 91-94, hi-hat through bars 95-107, snare through bars 108-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-125.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 5 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
23 24
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---g-----------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------------x-------|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------x---|x-------x-----------x-------x---|
HF |--------------------------------|--------------------x-----------|11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 26 and 22 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.
125 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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.
11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 26 and 22 more.