201 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-11, snare through bars 12-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, ride through bars 31-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-44, and 29 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 4 more places -- 8.2% 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....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|--------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---xxx---------x---x---|x---xxx-----x-------x-------x---|30 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 54 more.
It cuts the song into 92 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.
135 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.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
201 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 30 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.
30 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 54 more.