157 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, 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 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-29, hi-hat through bars 30-120, toms through bars 121-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-154, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 50-52, and 11 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
140 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 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.