158 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 6:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-17, toms through bars 18-23 and ride through bars 24-55, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 137-148 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
137 138
1...............2...............3...............4...............5....... 1...............2...............3...............4.......
RD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x---------------------------------------|------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------------------------------------------------------x---------------|x-------x---------------------------------------x-------|26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 67 more.
It cuts the song into 62 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.
96 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
158 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 67 more.