169 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:46 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, silence through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and silence through bars 49-51, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 45-47 and 53-55, and 24 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
37
1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |g---g---g---g---g---g---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-x---x-----x-x---x-|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 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.
100 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.
75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 6:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
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.