137 bars, 8:26, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-10, snare through bars 11-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, ride through bars 33-39 and snare through bars 40-43, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-26 and 40-42 -- 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.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x--------------------x--x-----x-----------------|16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 32, 39, 43, 61 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 55 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.
65 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
137 bars, about 8:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 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.
16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 9, 32, 39, 43, 61 and 20 more.