177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-89, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 9 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
25 26
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----g-g-g-g-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----x-----------|------x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----|15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
140 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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.
15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28 and 26 more.