129 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 5:48 of playing on crash, ride, 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.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-83, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51, 53 and 55, and 13 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
51
1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7.......8.......
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------x---x---o-------x---x---o-------x---x---o-------|
SD |----------------r-------------------------------r---------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------------------x---|8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
145 BPM, in 8/4, 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
129 bars, about 5:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 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.
8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 13 more.