222 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-24, and 34 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-61, 72-74 and 76-77, and 7 more places -- 15.1% 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---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|23 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 39, 42 and 35 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
150 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
222 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 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.
23 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 39, 42 and 35 more.