257 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 8:56 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-65, silence through bars 66-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-74, toms through bars 75-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-78 and toms through bars 79-80, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 4 more places -- 23.4% 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-----------|
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BD |x--------x--------x-----------------------------|20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 37 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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.
115 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
257 bars, about 8:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 28 sittings, about 24 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.
20 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 16, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64 and 37 more.