177 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, snare through bars 25-63, silence through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-97 and kick and crashes through bars 98-100, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-51, 56-63 and 150-161, and 1 more place -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
40 41
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--x-----x-----x---------x-----x-|
BD |x-----x---x-x-----x-----------x-|------x---x-x-----x---x---x-x---|15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
126 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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 25 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 19 more.