199 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-35, toms through bars 36-38, hi-hat through bars 39-62, snare through bars 63-70, hi-hat through bars 71-122 and ride through bars 123-169, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 138 and 140-170 -- 16.2% 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........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----------------------------------------------|------------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.
It cuts the song into 63 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.
130 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.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
199 bars, about 6:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 102.