79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-37, hi-hat through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-21 and 30-37 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
14 15
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----xxx---------xxxxxxx---x---|--xxx-------------xxxxxxx---x-xx|5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 57, 62, 63 and 7 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.
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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
79 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 41, 49, 53, 57, 62, 63 and 7 more.