152 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-33, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 53-54 and 61-62, and 5 more places -- 10.5% 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 |x-------x-------x---------------|
HH |----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-|24 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 88 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 23 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.
24 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9 and 88 more.