175 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.
ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-75, ride through bars 76-98, hi-hat through bars 99-126, kick and crashes through bars 127-134 and toms through bars 135-136, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-33, 35-36 and 99-115, and 1 more place -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
17 18
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-x-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-o-x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 51 more.
It cuts the song into 54 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.
112 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.
88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
175 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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.
20 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 51 more.