199 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 5:37 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, snare through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-84 and snare through bars 85-88, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-150, 152 and 154, and 9 more places -- 12.6% 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...........
HH |-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------o|
SD |-----------------------x------------------------|
BD |-----------x-----x-----------x-----------x-----x|12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
141 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 the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
199 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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.
12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22 and 11 more.