124 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-51, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 33-35 and 85-87, and 6 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
31
1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 52 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 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.
93 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.
124 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 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.
11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 13 more.