113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-23, hi-hat through bars 24-44, ride through bars 45-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-52, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7 and 9-11 -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
5 6
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
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HF |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx---|x-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx---x-----------|16 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 14, 24, 27, 28, 30, 34 and 48 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
80 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
113 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 21 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.
16 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 14, 24, 27, 28, 30, 34 and 48 more.