117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 2-13, snare through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-47, 50-51 and 69-70, and 5 more places -- 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.
46 47
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x-----x---------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-xxx-x-|
BD |x---x-----x-----x---x-----x---xx|--x---x---x---x---x---x---------|17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
101 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 32 more.