107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-13, toms through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-27, snare through bars 28-29, toms through bars 30-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-44, and 6 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 75-90 -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
75 76
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-x---------------|----x-------x-------------------|8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 34, 37, 45 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
108 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.
82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
107 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, 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.
8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 34, 37, 45 and 13 more.