139 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-32 and snare through bars 33-44, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-22, 25-27 and 45-46, and 5 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
21 22
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------xxxx|----x-------x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-|8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 70, 88, 89, 93, 96 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
139 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 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.
8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 34, 70, 88, 89, 93, 96 and 5 more.