177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
toms through bars 1-56, snare through bars 57-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88, snare through bars 89-103, toms through bars 104-138 and snare through bars 139-154, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 13 more places -- 18.3% 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-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
T2 |----------------------------x-x-|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 24, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
140 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 23, 24, 56, 64, 72, 88 and 9 more.