160 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-32, snare through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-68, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8 and 10-12 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
2 3
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
SD |--------------------------------|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x-------|
BD |x-------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
HF |--------x-------x-------x-------|--------------------------------|14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 26, 27, 28 and 29 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
150 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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.
14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 26, 27, 28 and 29 more.