99 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, silence through bars 14-26, hi-hat through bars 27-39, silence through bars 40-54 and kick and crashes through bars 55-58, and 1 more change after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-13 -- 16.9% 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---|x---x---------------------------|
HH |------------x-------x-----------|------------x-------x-------x---|
SD |------------x-----------x---x---|--x-------------x-----------x---|
BD |----x---x-------x---x-----x-xxxx|xxxxx---x---x-------x---x-----x-|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 70 and 99.
It cuts the song into 27 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.
110 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.
66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
99 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 70 and 99.