61 bars, 4:26, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-58 and snare through bars 59-61.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16 and 18-20 -- 23% 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...............
HH |x---x-----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x-----x----x-----x----|
SD |---------------r--------------------------------r---------------|
BD |x-------------------------x----x--------------------------------|12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 8 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.
81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
61 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 21, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 8 more.