150 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, snare through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 102-108, and 2 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----------|--x---x---------|11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 25, 33 and 14 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
150 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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.
11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 9, 16, 17, 25, 33 and 14 more.