130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 91 BPM, 4:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-23, ride through bars 24-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-35, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 39-41 and 58, and 2 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
35 36
1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |--x---x-------x---x-----|------x-----------------|
RD |------------------------|x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------|x---x-------x-----------|
T2 |------------------------|----------------xxxxxxxx|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---------|9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
91 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
130 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22 and 17 more.