137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-33, ride through bars 34-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-45, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-48, 50 and 52-57, and 8 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x---x---x---x-x-|x-x-----x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---x-------x---x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------|x-x-x-----------x-x-x-----------|18 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 73 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 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.
18 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 and 73 more.