85 bars, 5:19, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, ride through bars 38-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58, ride through bars 59-60 and snare through bars 61-64, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 19-30, and 2 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----gg--------x-----gg|
BD |x-x---x---------x-x---x---------|6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 30 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.
64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 41, 57, 58, 61, 62, 64 and 3 more.