148 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, ride through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-18 and toms through bars 19-25, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40 and 93-99 -- 5.5% 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---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
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---|20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 64 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
20 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 and 64 more.