116 bars, 6:48, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-56, snare through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-84, 95-96 and 99-108 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
75
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-x---------x---x-|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
116 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.