125 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49, silence through bars 50-53 and toms through bars 54-56, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 73, and 5 more places -- 13.4% 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.......
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 12, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 29 more.