122 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-38, hi-hat through bars 39-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 34-40 and 46-48 -- 14% 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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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-|12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 24, 33, 41, 49, 58 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
122 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 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.
12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 24, 33, 41, 49, 58 and 18 more.