241 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 106 BPM, 6:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-47, snare through bars 48-65, ride through bars 66-89, snare through bars 90-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-113, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 182-188, 190-192 and 194, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
182 183
1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|----------------------x-|
RD |----x---x---X---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------------------|x-----------x-----------|
BD |x---------------------x-|----------x-----------x-|21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 45, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 71 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.
106 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
241 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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.
21 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 33, 45, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 40 more.