185 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-23, ride through bars 24-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-65, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-65, 68-73 and 152-159, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
58 59
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------------------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----------x-----------|
FT |------------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|x-----------------x-x-x-------------------------|9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 and 17 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.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
185 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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.
9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 and 17 more.