109 bars, 6:14, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-80, hi-hat through bars 81-88, snare through bars 89-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-109.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-47 and 69-80 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
37 38
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-----------x---|x-----------x---x---x-----------|12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 28 and 11 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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.
70 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.
84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 17 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 12, 24, 28 and 11 more.