131 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, ride through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-52, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23, 27 and 39, and 2 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
104 105
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x---g---g---x---g---g---|x---g---g---x---g-------|
SD |--g---x---g---g---x---g-|--g---x---g---g---x-ggxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-------|15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 57 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.
154 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
131 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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.
15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 30 more.