241 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:25 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 bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-13, toms through bars 14-16, snare through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-23, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 33-40, and 4 more places -- 13.8% 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...............
RD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
SD |---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----|14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 14, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 59 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.
241 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 18 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.
14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 11, 14, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 16 more.