124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-37, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 29-35 and 37-43, and 2 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
9 10
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|--------------------x---x-------|
HH |--------------------------------|o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------x---x-x---------x---x-|x---------x---x-x---x-------x---|17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 25 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
100 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.
91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
124 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 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.
17 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 20, 24, 28, 36 and 25 more.