208 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, silence through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-44 and ride through bars 45-46, and 31 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71, 119 and 121-122, and 6 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
121 122
1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x-------------------------------|
RD |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x----x-----x-x--|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|28 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 73 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
140 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.
95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
208 bars, about 5:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 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.
28 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 73 more.