99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-53, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 42-52 and 71-81 -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
9 10
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|x-----------------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-xxxx|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 53 and 1 more.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
94 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 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.
2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 24, 53 and 1 more.