134 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-74, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-40, 42-44 and 48, and 6 more places -- 21.1% 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---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |-----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------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--|21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
110 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
134 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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.
21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 32 more.