118 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 73 BPM, 5:17 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-14, ride through bars 15-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-30, and 10 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 69 and 71-74 -- 4.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
71 72
1...............2...............3............... 1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------x-----------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------x-----------g---o-------x-------x---ggg-|g---x---x-------x---g---o-------x---o---x---o---|
SD |----g---g-g-----g-g-----x-------g---g---g-g-g---|g---g---g-------g---g---x---g---g---x-g-g---x-g-|
FT |--------------------x---------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-------X---x-----------X-----------|x-----------x---x-----------x-----------x-------|
HF |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------g-------------------|7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 27 more.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
73 BPM, in 3/4, 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.
86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
118 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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.
7 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 27 more.