187 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-32, snare through bars 33-38 and toms through bars 39-44, and 21 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37 and 73-74, and 8 more places -- 10.8% 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---------------|
SD |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|23 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 67 more.
It cuts the song into 69 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.
130 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
187 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 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.
23 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 67 more.