138 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-26, toms through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-40 and snare through bars 41-42, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 53-60 and 133-137 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
10 11
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x---------------x-------g-------x-------g-------|x-------g-------x-------g-------x---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-------x-x-|------------x-----------x---x-------x-----------|18 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 19, 27, 28 and 63 more.
It cuts the song into 49 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.
123 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.
86 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.
138 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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.
18 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 9, 11, 15, 19, 27, 28 and 63 more.