168 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 7:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, snare through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-33, snare through bars 34-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-42, and 18 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 10-11 and 13, and 18 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|26 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 6, 20, 28, 35, 36, 43 and 34 more.
It cuts the song into 67 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.
90 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.
77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
168 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 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.
26 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 6, 20, 28, 35, 36, 43 and 34 more.