138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.
79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, silence through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-29, snare through bars 30-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 105-117 and 119-130 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 48, 51, 53 and 15 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.
80 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 how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 6:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 30, 31, 32, 48, 51, 53 and 15 more.