232 bars, 19:01, at 50 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-198, ride through bars 199-203, hi-hat through bars 204-206, ride through bars 207-211 and hi-hat through bars 212-214, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 12-14 and 22-25, and 9 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 78 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.
50 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.
85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
232 bars, about 19:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18 and 25 more.