167 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-25, toms through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-37 and silence through bars 38-52, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 11 and 15-16, and 6 more places -- 11.3% 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....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
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BD |x---------------x---x---x-------|------------xxxx--------x-------|12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 42 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.
125 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
167 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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.
12 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 6, 12, 14, 20, 21, 22 and 45 more.