144 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-80, hi-hat through bars 81-116 and snare through bars 117-144.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 57-72 and 129-144 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
57 58
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |X-------X-------X-------X-------|X-------X-------X-------X-------|
SD |--------x-----g---g-x-----g---g-|----g---x-----g---g-----x-----g-|
BD |x---------------------------x---|x-------------------x-x---x-x---|8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 20 more.
It cuts the song into 37 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.
150 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.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
144 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16 and 20 more.