160 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-56, snare through bars 57-58, toms through bars 59-60, snare through bars 61-74 and toms through bars 75-76, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 41-46, and 4 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|x---g---x---g---x---g---x-------|
SD |--------r-------r---------------|--------r-------------------x---|
BD |x---x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-------x-----------|17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 31 and 32 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.
17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 23, 24, 31 and 32 more.