73 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-55, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25 and 42-49 -- 21.9% 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---xxxxxxxxxxxxx-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-----x-----x---|2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 40.
It cuts the song into 28 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.
130 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
73 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 40.