195 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-56, snare through bars 57-66, hi-hat through bars 67-68, snare through bars 69-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-80, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 130-161 and 187-193 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
130
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------X-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |x-----------x-----------------x--x--x--x--------|
FT |x-----------x-----------------------------x--x--|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 57 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
195 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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.
19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 48, 52, 57 and 27 more.