114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-30, hi-hat through bars 31-37, ride through bars 38-65, hi-hat through bars 66-78 and ride through bars 79-83, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 58-60, and 1 more place -- 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.
23 24
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------x-----|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------------x-----|
T2 |--------------------------------|-------------------xxx----------|
FT |--------------------------------|-----------------------xx-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-------------xx|16 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14 and 43 more.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
79 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
114 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 15 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 49 times: bars 2, 6, 7, 9, 13, 14 and 43 more.