146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19 and snare through bars 20-22, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31, and 10 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
27
1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 22, 26, 36, 38, 42 and 18 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
135 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 25 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.
17 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 22, 26, 36, 38, 42 and 18 more.