156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 7:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, toms through bars 29-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-40, silence through bars 41-44 and ride through bars 45-46, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-50, 52-54 and 57-60, and 3 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
47
1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 36 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 61 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.
88 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.
99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
156 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
23 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, 36 and 36 more.