168 bars, 11:03, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-61, ride through bars 62-67 and silence through bars 68-71, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4 and 107-130 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
3 4
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............
SD |x---x---x---g---x---x---x-x-x-x-g---g---x---x---x-----------x---|g---g---x---x---x---x---x---g---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-----------x---g---g---x---x---|3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 42, 43, 82, 143, 144, 145 and 5 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
68 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 11:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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.
3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 42, 43, 82, 143, 144, 145 and 5 more.