130 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-38 and ride through bars 39-50, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47 and 49, and 2 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
43
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |--x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|15 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 59 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28 and 59 more.