132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-32, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-10, and 6 more places -- 8.8% 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---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 20, 22 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
120 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.
91 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.
132 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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.
15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 11, 12, 20, 22 and 14 more.