164 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 3-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-51, ride through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-40, 56-63 and 96-110 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
26 27
1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|------g-----x-----------------------------------|12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 41, 51, 55, 71, 79 and 13 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
129 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.
70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, 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.
12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 41, 51, 55, 71, 79 and 13 more.