263 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 9:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-34, hi-hat through bars 35-43, toms through bars 44-76, hi-hat through bars 77-85 and toms through bars 86-118, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-59 and 86-101 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
44 45
1.......2.......3... 1.......2.......3...
T1 |x-x-----------------|--------------------|
T2 |------x-------------|x-x---x-------------|
FT |x---x---x---x-x-x---|x---x---x---x-x-x---|
BD |----x-----x-------x-|----x-----x-------xx|19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 35, 37, 41, 75, 76, 77 and 45 more.
It cuts the song into 80 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.
86 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
263 bars, about 9:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 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.
19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 35, 37, 41, 75, 76, 77 and 45 more.