171 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-27, toms through bars 28-33, ride through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 15 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30-32, and 7 more places -- 8.4% 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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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |-gg-Xg--g--gX-gg|
T1 |---------xx-----|
T2 |------X---------|
FT |x--x------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|26 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 102 more.
It cuts the song into 64 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 sixteenth 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
171 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.
26 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 1, 4, 8, 9, 11, 13 and 102 more.