91 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-42, toms through bars 43-45, snare through bars 46-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-62, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 55-56, and 1 more place -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
47 48
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|----x-----------x---------------x-------------------------------|
BD |--------x-------x---------------x---x---x---x---x-------x-------|--------x---x-------------------x---x---x---x---x-------x-------|14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 19, 23, 24 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
125 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.
94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 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.
14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 6, 18, 19, 23, 24 and 24 more.