219 bars, 10:36, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-36, toms through bars 37-45, snare through bars 46-60 and toms through bars 61-72, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 9-10 and 14-15, and 10 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1...............2...............3...............4....... 1...............2...............3...............4.......
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x---x---|----x-----------x-------x---x-----------x-----------x---|
BD |----x-----------x---------------x-----------x-----------|----x-----------x---------------x-----------x-----------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
72 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
219 bars, about 10:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 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.