233 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-32, snare through bars 33-39, toms through bars 40-56 and silence through bars 57-58, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 38-39 and 201, and 7 more places -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
201
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx---xxx---xxx-|23 fills to learn, played 125 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 23, 24 and 119 more.
It cuts the song into 70 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
233 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 25 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.
23 fills to learn, played 125 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 20, 23, 24 and 119 more.