240 bars, 11:30, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 2-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, toms through bars 59-60, hi-hat through bars 61-75 and ride through bars 76-84, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 153-154, 157-158 and 161-162, and 13 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
153 154
1.......2.......3... 1.......2.......3...
CC |x-------------------|--------------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-----------|
SD |--------x-----x-----|------x-x-----------|
T1 |--------------------|------------x-------|
T2 |--------------------|------------x---x---|
FT |--------------------|----------------x---|
BD |x-----------------x-|x---------x---x---x-|31 fills to learn, played 119 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 113 more.
It cuts the song into 72 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.
68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
240 bars, about 11:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 26 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.
31 fills to learn, played 119 times: bars 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 113 more.