148 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
snare through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-145 and silence through bars 146-148.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18, 28-30 and 128 -- 4.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
16 17
1...............2...............3............... 1...............2...............3...............4.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-----------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------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---|19 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 48 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.
103 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.
89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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.
19 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 54 more.