143 bars, 11:30, at 52 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-29, hi-hat through bars 30-53, ride through bars 54-78, hi-hat through bars 79-104 and toms through bars 105-107, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-53 and 95-102 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
46 47
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |-----------------------X-------X--------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------X|
HH |-----------------------------------------------o-------x-------x|-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x--------|
SD |---------------x-------------------------------x----------------|---------------x-------------------------------x----------------|
BD |---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x|---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x|5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 21, 29 and 7 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.
52 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.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
143 bars, about 11:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 10, 12, 21, 29 and 7 more.