104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-13, ride through bars 14-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-39, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-42, 44-46 and 48-50, and 6 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
40 41
1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----------|x--x--x--------x--x-----|11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 26, 30 and 9 more.
It cuts the song into 31 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.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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.
11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 18, 26, 30 and 9 more.