71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, ride through bars 17-26, toms through bars 27-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-32, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 47-49, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
1 2
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---x-x-|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-|--x-----x-------x-----x-x-----x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 28 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
90 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
71 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 and 28 more.