105 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.
ride through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-33, toms through bars 34-39, hi-hat through bars 40-67 and snare through bars 68-76, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 9 more places -- 11.8% 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-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----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-|18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
127 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 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
105 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 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.
18 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 37 more.