177 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-40, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21-23 and 32, and 6 more places -- 13.7% 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-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
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--|19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 26, 28 and 36 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.
128 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 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 42 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 18, 26, 28 and 36 more.