281 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
snare through bars 3-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-28, ride through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-44 and ride through bars 45-68, and 17 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
29 30
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-x---------------------|--------x-x---------------------|
T1 |------------------------x-------|------------------------x-------|
T2 |----------------------------x---|----------------------------x-x-|
BD |x---x-x---------x---x-x---------|x---x-x---------x---x-x---------|14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 18, 28 and 47 more.
It cuts the song into 81 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
281 bars, about 11:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 26 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 18, 28 and 47 more.