80 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-34, snare through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-68, 70-72 and 74-77 -- 13.8% 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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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |g---------------g---------------g---------------g---------------|
SD |------------------------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x--x-x--x---------------x--x-x--x---------------x--x-x--x-------|11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 38 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.
115 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.
88 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.
80 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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.
11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 14 and 14 more.