109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-63, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 5 more places -- 22% 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-------------------------------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--|12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 33 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
102 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 how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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.
12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 28, 32, 33 and 14 more.