146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, ride through bars 8-11, toms through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-25 and ride through bars 26-29, and 26 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 32-34 and 56-58, and 10 more places -- 22.6% 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.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 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.
19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 12 and 40 more.