69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, snare through bars 16-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-53, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11 and 13-15 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------x---x-------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-----------------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----x-----------x-----------x---|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|------------x-------x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 26 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.
90 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
69 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 12 more.