114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-33, ride through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, ride through bars 54-57, toms through bars 58-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-82, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 8 more places -- 10.5% 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...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------x---x-----------x-------------------|16 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15 and 33 more.
It cuts the song into 45 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.
69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 39 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15 and 33 more.