150 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:37 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.
hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-43, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 102-104, 106-107 and 110-112, and 9 more places -- 20.5% 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...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----x-----------|21 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 57 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
118 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 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.
21 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 57 more.