145 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-47, ride through bars 48-60, snare through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-99, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-9, 11-12 and 16-18, and 16 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o--o--x--x-----x--x--x--o--o--x--x-----x--x--x--|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
115 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.
90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
145 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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.
8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 14 more.