160 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-34, and 34 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 65-70 and 137-142 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
9 10
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x-x---x-x-|--x-x---x-x-----|
SD |-x-xxx-x-xxx-x-x|xx-x-xxx-x-xxxxx|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 40 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 40 more.