165 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, snare through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-106 and ride through bars 107-114, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 9 more places -- 12.7% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x-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-x-|8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 18, 22, 42, 45, 46 and 10 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
135 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.
92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
165 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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.
8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 18, 22, 42, 45, 46 and 10 more.