169 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-72 and snare through bars 73-74, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35, and 6 more places -- 15.4% 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.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 26 more.
It cuts the song into 68 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.
125 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 how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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.
20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 26 more.