125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-13, snare through bars 14-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-44, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 8 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x---------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x---|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x---x-x-x---x-|20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13 and 74 more.
It cuts the song into 47 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
125 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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.
20 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 13 and 74 more.