77 bars, 4:00, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, toms through bars 35-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-49, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 25-27 and 41-43, and 1 more place -- 13.7% 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...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
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-|7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 13, 15, 16, 20, 28 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 34 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.
71 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
77 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 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.
7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 13, 15, 16, 20, 28 and 12 more.