151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-37, ride through bars 38-39, toms through bars 40-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-67, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32, 36 and 44-45, and 4 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
36
1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|25 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 23 and 57 more.
It cuts the song into 74 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.
100 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
151 bars, about 5:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 25 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.
25 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 23 and 57 more.