209 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 127 BPM, 5:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-50, ride through bars 51-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-79, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 102-117 -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
102 103
1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-xxx-x-x-x-|xx-xx-x-x-x-|
SD |------r-----|------r-----|
BD |x-----------|------------|
HF |x---x---x---|x---x---x---|16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 44 more.
It cuts the song into 86 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.
127 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
209 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 29 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.
16 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16 and 44 more.