91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-32, silence through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-53, snare through bars 54-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-70, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-30, 80-82 and 84-86 -- 15.3% 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...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 89 and 90.
It cuts the song into 41 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.
100 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.
74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
91 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 89 and 90.