134 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-42, ride through bars 43-46, snare through bars 47-50, ride through bars 51-54 and snare through bars 55-58, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 51-54 and 59-66, and 2 more places -- 32.2% 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...........
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--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-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 5 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.
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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 11 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27 and 5 more.