107 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-55, toms through bars 56-58 and snare through bars 59-107.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-12, and 7 more places -- 21.9% 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--------x--|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-x-x-----------x--x-----x--x--x--|x-----x-----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----------x--x--|5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 33, 56, 66 and 107.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
125 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
107 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 33, 56, 66 and 107.