158 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:59 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 how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-12, silence through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-22 and ride through bars 23-25, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 58 and 60, and 22 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
56
1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|5 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 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.
5 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 27 more.