157 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, ride through bars 16-43 and kick and crashes through bars 44-51, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 20-26 and 36-37, and 15 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |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--|12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 19, 42, 43, 47 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
157 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 18 times: bars 1, 11, 19, 42, 43, 47 and 12 more.