140 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, snare through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-70 and snare through bars 71-73, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-35, 38 and 42-43, and 7 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
34 35
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o--xo--xo--xo-|--o--xo---o--xo-|
SD |----x-------x--X|----x----X--x--X|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HF |---x---x---x---x|---x---x---x---x|20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 52 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
148 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
140 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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.
20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 6, 7, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 52 more.