132 bars, 8:34, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-22, hi-hat through bars 23-29, ride through bars 30-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-62, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 11 and 13, and 11 more places -- 11.2% 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...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-----------------------x-----------------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x-----------x-x-----------------x---x-----------|11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 7, 66, 68, 70, 72 and 19 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
60 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
132 bars, about 8:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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.
11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 7, 66, 68, 70, 72 and 19 more.