153 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-21, snare through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-101, ride through bars 102-113, snare through bars 114-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-153.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 5 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
34 35
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------x---------------|------------------------------------------------x---------------|
RD |----------------x-----------------------------------------------|x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|----------------x---------------x-------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x---------------------------------------|--------x---------------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------x-------x---------------|------------------------x-------x-------------------------------|9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 29, 31, 33 and 11 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.
102 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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.
9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 29, 31, 33 and 11 more.