85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-63, silence through bars 64-65 and snare through bars 66-85.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-6, 12-13 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
5 6
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |-------------------------x--------------------------------------|-----------------x----------------------------------------------|
SD |----x------x--x---x-------------x------x--x---x------x------x---|---x--x---x-------------x------x--x---x------x------x------x--x-|
BD |x----------x---------x-------------x--------------------x-------|---x---------x-------------x--------------------x----------x----|
HF |x------x------x------x------x------x------x------x------x------x|------x------x------x------x------x------x------x------x------x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.
It cuts the song into 11 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.
85 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
85 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 85.