176 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-28, toms through bars 29-33, silence through bars 34-37, hi-hat through bars 38-47 and toms through bars 48-49, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-51, 54-55 and 94-95, and 3 more places -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
50 51
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |---------------------x--x--------x--------------|---------------x--------x-----x--x--|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------------------x--x--|x--------x--------x-----------------|22 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 46 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
138 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
176 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 46 more.