369 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 7:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-62, toms through bars 63-65, silence through bars 66-96, hi-hat through bars 97-128 and ride through bars 129-160, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-32 and 97-128 -- 20.6% 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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BD |x-----------------------|16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 63, 64, 160, 176, 192, 194 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
145 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
369 bars, about 7:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 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 38 times: bars 63, 64, 160, 176, 192, 194 and 32 more.