84 bars, 4:36, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
hi-hat through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-14, silence through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-30, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-39, 42-43 and 76-77, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
38 39
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxx-xxx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xxx-x-xxx-xx|x-xxx-x-xx-x-xx-x-xxx-x-xxx-xxx-|11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 44 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.
80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
84 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, 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.
11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 15 more.