146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-48, toms through bars 49-65 and snare through bars 66-77, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 10 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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BD |x-----------------------x-------x-------x---x-----------x-------|13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
135 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.
67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
146 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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.
13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 21, 22 and 23 more.