93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-93.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 15 more places -- 19.4% 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-----------------------|
RD |g--g--g--g--g--g--g--g-g|
HH |x-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-o--x|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
FT |------g-----g-gx--g-x---|
BD |x--x-------x--xx----x--x|
HF |---------------------x--|6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
104 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 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
93 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 8 more.