153 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-26, ride through bars 27-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63 and toms through bars 64-66, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 67-73, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
27
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
RD |--x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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 sixteenth 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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.
16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 8, 21, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.