166 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 7:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, ride through bars 45-53, silence through bars 54-56 and ride through bars 57-72, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62, 64 and 66, and 1 more place -- 6.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
62
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------------------x---|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x----------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxx---|24 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 61 more.
It cuts the song into 65 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.
110 BPM, in 6/4, 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.
87 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.
166 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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.
24 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13 and 61 more.