125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, ride through bars 12-27 and snare through bars 28-35, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 23, and 5 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
12 13
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxxxxx----|x-x-xxxxx-------|2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 66, 67, 117, 118 and 119.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
140 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 66, 67, 117, 118 and 119.